तत्त्वबोधः
Tattva Bodha
The Knowledge of Truth
The text a teacher gives first, to set down the vocabulary of Vedanta before the scriptures are opened
This is the library’s second reading room. The Sanskrit comes from a public domain edition, checked against a second witness; the English is set in our own plain voice. Forty-eight passages, in the order a student first receives them. How each text is sourced and kept is set down in the Method. Read slowly.
The passagesप्रकरणम्
- 1The invocationvāsudevendrayogīndraṃ natvā jñānapradaṃ…
- 2The fourfold meanssādhanacatuṣṭayaṃ kim
- 3Discernment of the realnityānityavastuvivekaḥ kaḥ
- 4Dispassionvirāgaḥ kaḥ
- 5The sixfold wealthśamādisādhanasampattiḥ kā
- 6Calmśamaḥ kaḥ
- 7Restraintdamaḥ kaḥ
- 8Withdrawaluparamaḥ kaḥ
- 9Endurancetitikṣā kā
- 10Faithśraddhā kīdṛśī
- 11Steadinesssamādhānaṃ kim
- 12The longing for liberationmumukṣutvaṃ kim
- 13The real and the unrealtattvavivekaḥ kaḥ
- 14The Selfātmā kaḥ
- 15The gross bodysthūlaśarīraṃ kim
- 16The subtle bodysūkṣmaśarīraṃ kim
- 17The causal bodykāraṇaśarīraṃ kim
- 18The three statesavasthātrayaṃ kim
- 19Wakingjāgradavasthā kā
- 20Dreamsvapnāvasthā keti cet
- 21Deep sleepataḥ suṣuptyavasthā kā
- 22The five sheathspañca kośāḥ ke
- 23The food sheathannamayaḥ kaḥ
- 24The breath sheathprāṇamayaḥ kaḥ
- 25The mind sheathmanomayaḥ kośaḥ kaḥ
- 26The intellect sheathvijñānamayaḥ kaḥ
- 27The bliss sheathānandamayaḥ kaḥ
- 28What is mine is not the Selfmadīyaṃ śarīraṃ madīyāḥ prāṇāḥ madīyaṃ…
- 29Being, consciousness, blissātmā tarhi kaḥ
- 30Beingsatkim
- 31Consciousnesscitkim
- 32Blissānandaḥ kaḥ
- 33Māyāatha caturviṃśatitattvotpattiprakāraṃ…
- 34The five elementstataḥ ākāśaḥ sambhūtaḥ
- 35The organs of perceptioneteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ madhye ākāśasya…
- 36The inner instrumenteteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ samaṣṭisātvikāṃśāt…
- 37The organs of actioneteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ madhye ākāśasya…
- 38The fivefold compoundingeteṣāṃ pañcatattvānāṃ tāmasāṃśāt…
- 39Jīva and Īśvarasthūlaśarīrābhimāni jīvanāmakaṃ…
- 40That thou artnanu sāhaṃkārasya kiṃcijjñasya jīvasya…
- 41Freed while livingevaṃ ca vedāntavākyaiḥ sadgurūpadeśena ca…
- 42Who is the jīvanmuktananu jīvanmuktaḥ kaḥ
- 43The three kinds of actionbrahmaivāhamasmītyaparokṣajñānena…
- 44The coming actionjñānotpattyanantaraṃ jñānidehakṛtaṃ…
- 45The stored actionsañcitaṃ karma kim
- 46The begun actionprārabdhaṃ karma kimiti cet
- 47How knowledge undoes actionsañcitaṃ karma brahmaivāhamiti…
- 48The crossing overtathā cātmavitsaṃsāraṃ tīrtvā…