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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

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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

  1. Printed page 1Title, salutations, and opening invocation
  2. Printed page 2The two kinds of relationship
  3. Printed page 3The marks of a great soul and the nature of delusion
  4. Printed page 4The cause of delusion and the Lord of Māyā
  5. Printed page 5The teacher prepares the seeker for refuge
  6. Printed page 6Nārada’s approach to Sanatkumāra
  7. Printed page 7The Sāṃkhya analysis of the three bodies
  8. Printed page 8The self distinguished from the three bodies
  9. Printed page 9Ordinary and divine self-identification
  10. Printed page 10The branch analogy and absorption in divine love
  11. Printed page 11Divine understanding and divine sight
  12. Printed page 12Remembrance after the dissolution of the inner instrument
  13. Printed page 13The marks of pure knowledge
  14. Printed page 14The five sacred formations
  15. Printed page 15Self-surrender and the five sacred formations
  16. Printed page 16The rite of the five sacred formations
  17. Printed page 17The upright mark and the tulasī necklace
  18. Printed page 18Inner formation and contemplative relationship
  19. Printed page 19The beginningless bond between the soul and the Supreme
  20. Printed page 20Knowledge of relationship and attainment according to one's disposition
  21. Printed page 21Disposition, rasa, relationship, and love
  22. Printed page 22Relationships disclosed by the mantra
  23. Printed page 23The word namaḥ and Śaṭhakopa's bridal contemplation
  24. Printed page 24Śaṭhakopa's bridal longing for Rāma
  25. Printed page 25The supremacy of śṛṅgāra, the king of rasas
  26. Printed page 26The intensity of love and Uddhava's prayer
  27. Printed page 27Śaṭhārisūri's feminine devotional mood
  28. Printed page 28The soul as conscious prakṛti
  29. Printed page 29The liberated soul's feminine disposition and knowledge of relationship
  30. Printed page 30Marriage symbolism within the root mantra
  31. Printed page 31Relationship as the root of love and the written bond
  32. Printed page 32Why śṛṅgāra is called the king of rasas
  33. Printed page 33Self-surrender and the scriptural terms rasa and rasika
  34. Printed page 34Self-oriented happiness and happiness arising from the divine object
  35. Printed page 35Omnipresence of the Divine Auspicious Form
  36. Printed page 36Many Forms, One Divine Presence
  37. Printed page 37Aiśvarya and Mādhurya in Worship
  38. Printed page 38External Vision and Mental Service
  39. Printed page 39When Love Becomes the Governing Rule
  40. Printed page 40Grace, Mental Attainment, and the Blissful Form
  41. Printed page 41Instruction Requires Discipleship and Grace
  42. Printed page 42The Greatest Offense against the Ācāryas
  43. Printed page 43Purity, Obedience, and the Question of Relationship
  44. Printed page 44Contemplating One's Place in the Two Royal Households
  45. Printed page 45The Two Royal Assemblies of Mithilā and Ayodhyā
  46. Printed page 46Conclusion of the Ānandavardhinī Commentary