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      <h1 class="animate__animated animate__bounceInDown text-4xl md:text-5xl font-bold tracking-wider text-amber-300 uppercase font-oswald mb-2 text-shadow-lg">Tattva Bodha</h1>
      <p class="italic text-gray-300">The Awakening to Reality by Adi Sankaracharya</p>
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">I. The Four Perfections</h2>
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-4">To the Master, the World-Soul, the Master of seekers for union, obeisance; to the teacher, the giver of wisdom.</p>
      
      <blockquote class="border-l-4 border-amber-300 pl-4 my-6 text-gray-300 italic">
        We shall tell of the way of discerning reality, the perfection of freedom, for those who are fitted by possessing the Four Perfections.
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      <ul class="list-disc pl-6 space-y-3 text-gray-200">
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Viveka:</strong> Discernment between lasting and unlasting things.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Vyragya:</strong> No rage for enjoying the fruit of works, either here or there.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Sad Sampatti:</strong> Six graces that follow peace — Peace, Self-Control, Steadiness, Sturdiness, Confidence, Intentness.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Mumukshutva:</strong> Longing to be free.</li>
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      <p class="text-gray-200 mt-6">Through these four perfections, men are fitted to discern reality.</p>
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">II. What is the Self?</h2>
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-4">The Self stands apart from the Physical, the Emotional, and the Causal Vestures; beyond the five Veils; witness of the three Modes. His own nature is Being, Consciousness, Bliss — this is the Self.</p>
      
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        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Being:</strong> That which stands through the Three Times — Past, Present, Future.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Consciousness:</strong> The own-nature of perceiving.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Bliss:</strong> The own-nature of joy.</li>
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        Thus let a man know that the own-nature of his own Self is Being, Consciousness, Bliss.
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">III. The Three Vestures</h2>
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        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Physical Vesture (sthula sarira):</strong> Formed of the fivefold elements, born through works, it is the house where pleasure and pain are enjoyed.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Emotional Vesture (sookshma sarira):</strong> Formed of the non-fivefold elements, it consists of seventeen phases — the five powers of knowing, five of doing, five lives, emotion, and soul.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Causal Vesture (karana sarira):</strong> Born of beginningless unwisdom, it is the cause of the other two vestures.</li>
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">IV. The Three Modes</h2>
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        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Waking (Jagrat):</strong> Knowledge comes through Hearing and other knowing powers.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Dreaming (Swapna):</strong> The world appears in rest, generated by impressions of waking life.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Dreamlessness (Sushupti):</strong> A state where one perceives nothing outwardly and enjoys bliss inwardly.</li>
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">V. The Five Veils</h2>
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        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Food-formed (annamaya kosa)</strong></li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Life-formed (pranamaya kosa)</strong></li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Emotion-formed (manomaya kosa)</strong></li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Knowledge-formed (vijnanamaya kosa)</strong></li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Bliss-formed (anandamaya kosa)</strong></li>
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">VI. Maya, Life, and the Lord</h2>
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-4">There is an image of the Eternal, called the Life, who attributes himself to the vestures. Through the power of Nature, he sees the Lord as separate.</p>
      
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-4">When wearing the disguise of Unwisdom, the Self is called the Life. When wearing the disguise of Glamor, the Self is called the Lord.</p>
      
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        But the difference between Life and Lord is only apparent. In truth, both are pure Consciousness.
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      <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">VII. The Free-in-Life (Jivanmukta)</h2>
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-4">He who realizes "I am stainless Being, Consciousness, Bliss," and knows this by direct perception, is Free-in-life.</p>
      
      <p class="text-gray-200 mb-6">Once the knowledge "I am the Eternal" arises, all bonds of deeds dissolve.</p>
      
      <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold mb-3 text-amber-200">Three Kinds of Deeds:</h3>
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        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Deeds to come:</strong> Pure and impure actions done after wisdom is gained.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Deeds accumulated:</strong> Actions waiting to manifest from past births.</li>
        <li><strong class="text-amber-200">Deeds entered on:</strong> Actions experienced now and ended through experience.</li>
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      <p>Translated by Charles Johnston</p>
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