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ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION
Author's introduction
Objection: No need for Atmajñāna
Reply: It is necessary and useful
The mahāvākyas, the great statements, the means of
knowing Atman-Brahman
Meanings of words and statements
Objection: Regarding the necessity for discussion
Reply: Discussion to dispel doubts caused by the
disputants
Priority of the tvam-pada-artha, the meaning of the
word 'Thou' :
View of the Carvāka, the Vijnanavādin, the
Madhyamika, 'Jaina, Vaişeshika, Nyaya,
Prabhākara, Bhatta, Sankhya, Yoga and the
Upanishads the vedanta
Conclusion of the author's introduction as a
prelude to verse 1.
Verse 1 and its translation
Refutation of other views :
The grounds of refutation
The reason elaborated
1
Objection: The self absent in 'sushupti', deep sleep
Answer: Awareness present as the witness in deep
sleep
Proved by the memory of that condition
Objection: No need for a witness
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1
2
3
4.
5-7
8
10
11
12
13
15-20
21
22-27
28
29
29
30
Answer: Need proved
31
32
Objection: No evidence for the unchanging witness
Reply: Scriptural evidence for the unchanging witness 33
Objections to the rejection of the mind as the knower
and answers thereto
34-37
I
1
1
Author's introduction
Objection: No need for Atmajñāna
Reply: It is necessary and useful
The mahāvākyas, the great statements, the means of
knowing Atman-Brahman
Meanings of words and statements
Objection: Regarding the necessity for discussion
Reply: Discussion to dispel doubts caused by the
disputants
Priority of the tvam-pada-artha, the meaning of the
word 'Thou' :
View of the Carvāka, the Vijnanavādin, the
Madhyamika, 'Jaina, Vaişeshika, Nyaya,
Prabhākara, Bhatta, Sankhya, Yoga and the
Upanishads the vedanta
Conclusion of the author's introduction as a
prelude to verse 1.
Verse 1 and its translation
Refutation of other views :
The grounds of refutation
The reason elaborated
1
Objection: The self absent in 'sushupti', deep sleep
Answer: Awareness present as the witness in deep
sleep
Proved by the memory of that condition
Objection: No need for a witness
Paragraph
1
2
3
4.
5-7
8
10
11
12
13
15-20
21
22-27
28
29
29
30
Answer: Need proved
31
32
Objection: No evidence for the unchanging witness
Reply: Scriptural evidence for the unchanging witness 33
Objections to the rejection of the mind as the knower
and answers thereto
34-37
I
1
1