आत्मसम्बन्ध दर्पण — आनन्दवर्धिनी टीका सहित
Ātma-sambandha-darpaṇa
Svāmī Rasik Alī · commentary by Paṇḍit Jānakīvallabha Śaraṇa
Svāmī Rasik Alī’s complete teaching on the soul’s divine relationship, with Paṇḍit Jānakīvallabha Śaraṇa’s Ānandavardhinī commentary
Controlling page-image witness ↗This edition presents the complete interleaved root and Ānandavardhinī commentary from printed pages 1–46, corresponding to PDF pages 11–56 of the checksum-locked witness. Ten introductory pages remain source context. Because the witness supplies no stable authorial chapter or numbered-unit topology, physical printed pages are the least interpretive complete units. The unlicensed scan remains research-only; this release contains the scan-controlled transcription and new translation.
Complete contents
- Printed page 1Title, salutations, and opening invocation
- Printed page 2The two kinds of relationship
- Printed page 3The marks of a great soul and the nature of delusion
- Printed page 4The cause of delusion and the Lord of Māyā
- Printed page 5The teacher prepares the seeker for refuge
- Printed page 6Nārada’s approach to Sanatkumāra
- Printed page 7The Sāṃkhya analysis of the three bodies
- Printed page 8The self distinguished from the three bodies
- Printed page 9Ordinary and divine self-identification
- Printed page 10The branch analogy and absorption in divine love
- Printed page 11Divine understanding and divine sight
- Printed page 12Remembrance after the dissolution of the inner instrument
- Printed page 13The marks of pure knowledge
- Printed page 14The five sacred formations
- Printed page 15Self-surrender and the five sacred formations
- Printed page 16The rite of the five sacred formations
- Printed page 17The upright mark and the tulasī necklace
- Printed page 18Inner formation and contemplative relationship
- Printed page 19The beginningless bond between the soul and the Supreme
- Printed page 20Knowledge of relationship and attainment according to one's disposition
- Printed page 21Disposition, rasa, relationship, and love
- Printed page 22Relationships disclosed by the mantra
- Printed page 23The word namaḥ and Śaṭhakopa's bridal contemplation
- Printed page 24Śaṭhakopa's bridal longing for Rāma
- Printed page 25The supremacy of śṛṅgāra, the king of rasas
- Printed page 26The intensity of love and Uddhava's prayer
- Printed page 27Śaṭhārisūri's feminine devotional mood
- Printed page 28The soul as conscious prakṛti
- Printed page 29The liberated soul's feminine disposition and knowledge of relationship
- Printed page 30Marriage symbolism within the root mantra
- Printed page 31Relationship as the root of love and the written bond
- Printed page 32Why śṛṅgāra is called the king of rasas
- Printed page 33Self-surrender and the scriptural terms rasa and rasika
- Printed page 34Self-oriented happiness and happiness arising from the divine object
- Printed page 35Omnipresence of the Divine Auspicious Form
- Printed page 36Many Forms, One Divine Presence
- Printed page 37Aiśvarya and Mādhurya in Worship
- Printed page 38External Vision and Mental Service
- Printed page 39When Love Becomes the Governing Rule
- Printed page 40Grace, Mental Attainment, and the Blissful Form
- Printed page 41Instruction Requires Discipleship and Grace
- Printed page 42The Greatest Offense against the Ācāryas
- Printed page 43Purity, Obedience, and the Question of Relationship
- Printed page 44Contemplating One's Place in the Two Royal Households
- Printed page 45The Two Royal Assemblies of Mithilā and Ayodhyā
- Printed page 46Conclusion of the Ānandavardhinī Commentary