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- Read on →: avijñāta-tattve’rthe kāraṇopapattitas tattva-jñānārtham ūhas tarkaḥ
avijñāta-tattve’rthe kāraṇopapattitas tattva-jñānārtham ūhas tarkaḥ |
(Nyāya-sūtra: 1.1.40)“Tarka is [a type of] deliberation in the form of demonstration [i.e., proposition] of causes for the purpose of [attaining] knowledge of the nature (tattva) of an object the nature of which is unknown.”
- Read on →: svabhāvo nopadeśena śakyate kartum anyathā
svabhāvo nopadeśena śakyate kartum anyathā |
sutaptam api pānīyaṁ punar gacchati śītalam ||
yadi syac chītalo vahniḥ śītāṁśur dahanātmakaḥ |
na svabhāvo’tra martyānāṁ śakyate kartum anyathā ||
(Hitopadeśa: Mitra-bheda, 280–281)“The svabhāva cannot be changed by instructions. Although [it may be made] very hot [for a certain period of time], water again [inevitably] goes cold. [Even] If fire were to become cold, and the moon [lit. ‘that which has cool rays’] were to become fiery, [still] the svabhāvas of mortal beings in this world could not be changed.”
- Read on →: sarvasya hi parīkṣyante svabhāvā netare guṇāḥ
sarvasya hi parīkṣyante svabhāvā netare guṇāḥ |
atītya hi guṇān sarvān svabhāvo mūrdhni vartate ||
(Hitopadeśa: Mitra-lābha, 20)“The natures (svabhāvas) of all are to be examined, and not, on the contrary, the qualities, since the nature (svabhāva) [of a person], surpassing all qualities, abides at the head [i.e., the svabhāva predominates in the thinking and behavior of person].”
- Read on →: svabhāvo yādṛśo yasya na jahāti kadācana
svabhāvo yādṛśo yasya na jahāti kadācana |
aṅgāraḥ śata-dhautena malinatvaṁ na muñcati ||
(Unknown source; cited in Śabda-kalpa-druma)“Whatever one’s svabhāva [may be], one can never give it up. Charcoal does not give up its blackness [even] by washing it a hundred times.”
- Read on →: itthaṁ sma pṛṣṭaḥ sa tu bādarāyaṇis
itthaṁ sma pṛṣṭaḥ sa tu bādarāyaṇis
tat-smāritānanta-hṛtākhilendriyaḥ |
kṛcchrāt punar labdha-bahir-dṛśiḥ śanaiḥ
pratyāha taṁ bhāgavatottamottama ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.12.44)[Sūta Gosvāmī to Śaunaka Ṛṣi:] “O best of the best of the bhāgavatas, so questioned, that Bādrarāyaṇi [i.e., Śukadeva Gosvāmī], all his senses seized by Ananta [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa] as he was reminded [of Ananta] thereby, with difficulty gradually regained external awareness and spoke to him [i.e., Parīkṣit Mahārāja].”
- Read on →: pariniṣṭhito’pi nairguṇya uttama-śloka-līlayā
pariniṣṭhito’pi nairguṇya uttama-śloka-līlayā |
gṛhīta-cetā rājarṣe ākhyānaṁ yad adhītavān ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.1.9)“O royal sage! Although I was completely immersed in that which is beyond the guṇas, my consciousness was captivated by the līlā of he of highest praise [i.e., Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa], and [thus] I studied this narration [i.e., Śrīmad Bhāgavatam]”