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Tattva

The nature of reality · Samkhya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta, explained

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Tattva — Big Questions

• Five Reasons for the Seer · Samkhya Karika 17
• Four Ways of Knowing · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.3
• Trusting a Reliable Word · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.7
• Signs of a Self · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.10
• Freedom That Does Not Reverse · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.22
• Debate That Seeks Truth · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.1
• The Newborn's Remembered Feelings · Nyaya Sutras 3.1.18
• Effort That Bears Nothing · Nyaya Sutras 4.1.19
• Defining Dharma by Its Fruit · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.2
• No Cause, No Effect · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.2.1
• The source of the world · Brahma Sutras 1.1.2
• Not nothing, since perceived · Brahma Sutras 2.2.27

Tattva — Samkhya — Consciousness and Matter

• Three Sufferings, One Search · Samkhya Karika 1
• Why Rites Fall Short · Samkhya Karika 2
• Source, Product, or Neither · Samkhya Karika 3
• Three Ways of Knowing · Samkhya Karika 4
• Defining Perception, Inference, Testimony · Samkhya Karika 5
• Reaching Beyond the Senses · Samkhya Karika 6
• Why Real Things Go Unseen · Samkhya Karika 7
• Unseen but Not Absent · Samkhya Karika 8
• Already There Before Making · Samkhya Karika 9
• Manifest and Unmanifest Contrasted · Samkhya Karika 10
• Six Marks Nature Shares · Samkhya Karika 11
• Three Strands, Always Entwined · Samkhya Karika 12
• Three gunas like a lamp · Samkhya Karika 13
• Inferring the Hidden Cause · Samkhya Karika 14
• Five Signs of the Unmanifest · Samkhya Karika 15
• One Source, Many Natures · Samkhya Karika 16
• Why Consciousness Is Many · Samkhya Karika 18
• Witness, Not Doer · Samkhya Karika 19
• The Trick of Nearness · Samkhya Karika 20
• The Lame and the Blind · Samkhya Karika 21
• The Order of Unfolding · Samkhya Karika 22
• Eight Forms of Intellect · Samkhya Karika 23
• The I-Maker's Twin Streams · Samkhya Karika 24
• Bright Senses, Heavy Elements · Samkhya Karika 25
• The Ten Senses · Samkhya Karika 26
• The Mind That Works Both Ways · Samkhya Karika 27
• Bare Seeing and Doing · Samkhya Karika 28
• Five Breaths Held in Common · Samkhya Karika 29
• How Perception Shares Its Work · Samkhya Karika 30
• Organs Moved by Purpose · Samkhya Karika 31
• Seize, Hold and Show · Samkhya Karika 32
• Bound to the Present Moment · Samkhya Karika 33
• Senses and Their Objects · Samkhya Karika 34
• The Warden at the Door · Samkhya Karika 35
• Lamps Before the Intellect · Samkhya Karika 36
• Seeing the Final Difference · Samkhya Karika 37
• Subtle and Gross Elements · Samkhya Karika 38
• Three Kinds of Body · Samkhya Karika 39
• What Travels Between Lives · Samkhya Karika 40
• Nothing Stands Unsupported · Samkhya Karika 41
• The Subtle Body's Many Roles · Samkhya Karika 42
• Where Character Comes From · Samkhya Karika 43
• Up, Down, or Free · Samkhya Karika 44
• Dispassion Is Not Enough · Samkhya Karika 45
• The Creation of Ideas · Samkhya Karika 46
• Fifty States, Four Kinds · Samkhya Karika 47
• Five Grades of Error · Samkhya Karika 48
• When the Instruments Break · Samkhya Karika 49
• Nine Ways to Settle Early · Samkhya Karika 50
• Eight Fulfilments and Their Curb · Samkhya Karika 51
• Two Creations Leaning Together · Samkhya Karika 52
• Gods, Animals and Humans · Samkhya Karika 53
• Three Strands by Level · Samkhya Karika 54
• Who Feels the Pain · Samkhya Karika 55
• Nature Working for Another · Samkhya Karika 56
• Nature Works Without Knowing · Samkhya Karika 57
• Restlessness and Its Release · Samkhya Karika 58
• The Dancer Leaves the Stage · Samkhya Karika 59
• Generosity Without Return · Samkhya Karika 60
• Nature Withdraws Once Seen · Samkhya Karika 61
• Who Is Really Bound · Samkhya Karika 62
• Seven Knots, One Release · Samkhya Karika 63
• Not I, Not Mine · Samkhya Karika 64
• Nature Stops, Witness Watches · Samkhya Karika 65
• Contact Without Creation · Samkhya Karika 66
• The Wheel Still Turns · Samkhya Karika 67
• Aloneness Made Final · Samkhya Karika 68
• Purpose of Samkhya Knowledge · Samkhya Karika 69
• The Chain of Teachers · Samkhya Karika 70
• A Doctrine Condensed · Samkhya Karika 71
• Complete, Minus Tales and Quarrels · Samkhya Karika 72

Tattva — Nyaya — How We Know

• Sixteen Topics, One Goal · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.1
• Undoing the Chain of Suffering · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.2
• What Counts as Perception · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.4
• Inference in Three Kinds · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.5
• Learning by Likeness · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.6
• Words About the Unseen · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.8
• Twelve Things Worth Knowing · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.9
• Senses Built from Elements · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.12
• Elements and Sense Objects · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.13
• Three Names, One Knowing · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.15
• One Thought at a Time · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.16
• Action and Its Drivers · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.17
• Rebirth, Defined · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.19
• The Mark of Pain · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.21
• Five Roots of Doubt · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.23
• Common Ground for Argument · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.25
• Five Parts of an Argument · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.32
• Naming What Must Be Shown · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.33
• Proving by Likeness, Unlikeness · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.34
• Example and Counter-Example · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.36
• Application and Conclusion · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.38
• Testing Possibilities Before Knowing · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.40
• Reaching a Settled Verdict · Nyaya Sutras 1.1.41
• Debating to Win · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.2
• Attack Without a Thesis · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.3
• Five Ways Reasons Fail · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.4
• Evidence That Fits Both Sides · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.5
• Undercutting Your Own Position · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.6
• The Question-Reopening Reason · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.7
• Proof Still Needing Proof · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.8
• The Mistimed Sign · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.9
• Twisting Someone's Words · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.10
• Twisting a Speaker's Word · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.12
• Replies Built on Mere Resemblance · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.18
• Where a Debate Is Lost · Nyaya Sutras 1.2.19
• No Moment for Knowing · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.8
• Denial Needs a Means · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.13
• The Mutually Seen Lamp · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.19
• Seeing Only the Near Side · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.31
• Words Mean by Agreement · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.56
• Trusting the Unseen Testimony · Nyaya Sutras 2.1.69
• Four Sources or Eight? · Nyaya Sutras 2.2.1
• Is Sound Made or Revealed? · Nyaya Sutras 2.2.13
• What a Word Names · Nyaya Sutras 2.2.68
• One Knower, Two Senses · Nyaya Sutras 3.1.1
• What Triggers a Memory · Nyaya Sutras 3.2.41
• Thoughts in Single File · Nyaya Sutras 3.2.56
• The Spinning Firebrand · Nyaya Sutras 3.2.58
• Pleasure Between the Pains · Nyaya Sutras 4.1.55
• Freedom as Dreamless Sleep · Nyaya Sutras 4.1.63
• Clear Sight Undoes Ego · Nyaya Sutras 4.2.1
• The Idealist's Challenge · Nyaya Sutras 4.2.31
• Concentration That Reveals Truth · Nyaya Sutras 4.2.38
• Study, Practice, Envy-Free Talk · Nyaya Sutras 4.2.46
• Thorns Around Young Conviction · Nyaya Sutras 4.2.49
• Twenty-Two Ways to Lose · Nyaya Sutras 5.2.1

Tattva — Tarka-sangraha — Logic in One Sitting

• Joining Rule and Sign · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 3
• The Rule Behind Inference · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 4
• For Yourself, For Another · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 6
• Five Steps of Proof · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 9
• Agreement and Absence · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 11
• Subject, Similar, Opposite Case · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 14
• Five Faulty Reasons · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 17
• Reason With No Ground · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 25
• The Hidden Condition · Tarka Sangraha, Anumana 27
• Time and Direction · Tarka Sangraha, Dravya 6
• The Knower Within · Tarka Sangraha, Dravya 8
• The Inner Instrument · Tarka Sangraha, Dravya 9
• What Knowledge Is · Tarka Sangraha, Guna 16
• Right and Wrong Experience · Tarka Sangraha, Guna 19
• Defining a Cause · Tarka Sangraha, Guna 24
• Threads, Joining, Loom · Tarka Sangraha, Guna 26
• Perception in Two Stages · Tarka Sangraha, Pratyaksha 2
• Seeing an absence · Tarka Sangraha, Pratyaksha 9
• Three Conditions of Sentence Meaning · Tarka Sangraha, Shabda 2
• The Seven Categories · Tarka Sangraha, Uddesha 1
• Four Kinds of Absence · Tarka Sangraha, Uddesha 8
• Knowing by Comparison · Tarka Sangraha, Upamana 1

Tattva — Vaisheshika — What the World Is Made Of

• The Promise to Explain Dharma · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.1
• Why Scripture Can Be Trusted · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.3
• Six kinds of everything · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.4
• Nine substances, no more · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.5
• The Qualities Things Carry · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.6
• Five Kinds of Motion · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.7
• What Things, Qualities, Actions Share · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.8
• The Mark of Substance · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.15
• Features That Never Move · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.16
• Motion as Joiner and Separator · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.1.17
• Missing Effect, Present Cause · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.2.2
• Shared and Distinguishing Natures · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.2.3
• Being as a Real Universal · Vaisheshika Sutras 1.2.7
• What Each Element Carries · Vaisheshika Sutras 2.1.1
• Akasha Known by Elimination · Vaisheshika Sutras 2.1.27
• The Signs of Time · Vaisheshika Sutras 2.2.6
• Direction: Near and Far · Vaisheshika Sutras 2.2.10
• How Doubt Arises · Vaisheshika Sutras 2.2.17
• Two Bad Reasons · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.1.16
• Evidence for an Inner Organ · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.2.1
• The Self's Telltale Signs · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.2.4
• What 'I' Points To · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.2.9
• Why Selves Are Many · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.2.20
• The uncaused endures · Vaisheshika Sutras 4.1.1
• Why Atoms Stay Unseen · Vaisheshika Sutras 4.1.6
• Motion Without a Push · Vaisheshika Sutras 5.1.15
• When the Arrow Drops · Vaisheshika Sutras 5.1.18
• Water Climbing the Tree · Vaisheshika Sutras 5.2.7
• The Mind Held Still · Vaisheshika Sutras 5.2.16
• No Further Body · Vaisheshika Sutras 5.2.18
• An Author Behind Scripture · Vaisheshika Sutras 6.1.1
• Pleasure Breeds Attachment · Vaisheshika Sutras 6.2.10
• The Atom's Fixed Size · Vaisheshika Sutras 7.1.20
• Why the Mind Is Minute · Vaisheshika Sutras 7.1.23
• The Bond Called Inherence · Vaisheshika Sutras 7.2.26
• Effects Do Not Pre-exist · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.1.1
• The Pot Kept Elsewhere · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.1.10
• The Yogi Sees the Self · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.1.11
• Five Kinds of Sign · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.2.1
• How Dreams Arise · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.2.7
• Two Roots of Error · Vaisheshika Sutras 9.2.10

Tattva — Mimamsa — Words, Duty and Meaning

• The Enquiry into Dharma · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.1
• Duty Defined by Command · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.2
• Why Seeing Falls Short · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.4
• Word Born With Its Meaning · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.5
• The Word Is Eternal · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.18
• Sentences Aim at Action · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.25
• Named for Teachers · Mimamsa Sutras 1.1.30
• Praise Serves the Command · Mimamsa Sutras 1.2.7
• Tradition Tested Against Veda · Mimamsa Sutras 1.3.2

Tattva — Vedanta — The Real

• Now, the Enquiry into Brahman · Brahma Sutras 1.1.1
• Scripture as Brahman's Source · Brahma Sutras 1.1.3
• Harmony of the Upanishads · Brahma Sutras 1.1.4
• Why Matter Cannot See · Brahma Sutras 1.1.5
• Brahman as material cause · Brahma Sutras 1.4.23
• Pot Is Only Clay · Brahma Sutras 2.1.15
• Making Without Tools · Brahma Sutras 2.1.24
• Creation as Sheer Play · Brahma Sutras 2.1.33
• God and Unequal Fortune · Brahma Sutras 2.1.34
• Matter Cannot Build Order · Brahma Sutras 2.2.1
• The First Push Has No Source · Brahma Sutras 2.2.11
• Why Waking Isn't Dreaming · Brahma Sutras 2.2.28
• The Self Is Unborn · Brahma Sutras 2.3.18
• Spark and Fire · Brahma Sutras 2.3.42
• Dream Falls Short · Brahma Sutras 3.2.3
• What Remains After Denial · Brahma Sutras 3.2.21
• Repeat the Contemplation · Brahma Sutras 4.1.1
• The Door That Stays Shut · Brahma Sutras 4.4.22

Tattva — Stories

• Kapila Teaches His Mother · Bhagavata Purana 3.25
• Devahuti Set Free · Bhagavata Purana 3.33
• Ashtavakra at Janaka's Court · Mahabharata, Vana Parva 132

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