Sri Tattva Sutra
Tattva Prakaranam
1. ekah paro nanyah
Sri Krsna is one without a second: He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
2. agunopi sarvasaktirameyatvat
Although transcendental to material qualities, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, posseses expansive, immense potencies inconceivable to mundane
perception.
3. viruddha sama-nyam tasminnacitram
Innummerable contradictory qualities simultaneously existing in Sri Krsna is
nothing uncommon or wonderful.
9. sa saccidanandojnanagamyo bhakti visayatvat
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, whose form is eternal, fully
conscious and blissful, is not perceivable by mundane faculties but can be realized
only by transcendental unalloyed devotional service.
5. sa ca satyo nityo 'nadirananto desa kalapa-ricchedat
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna is the Supreme Absolute Truth,
beyond the influence of time and space.
6. paropi cijjadabhyam vilasi visva siddheh-
Although transcendental to matter and spirit, Sri Krsna expands through His
diverse energies as the cosmic manifestation, consisting of both matter and spirit,
for His pastimes.
7. tacchaktitastatvadhikyamiticcenna tadabhedat
Sri Krsna s transcendental potency is not a separate principle, it is identical with
Him.
8. kartapyavikarah svatantryat
Sri Krsna being supremely independent, is never affected by His creation, although
He is the cause of all causes.
9. sadaikarupah purnatvat
Sri Krsna is the complete Absolute Truth. (The cosmic manifestation or
annihilation does not change His fullness.)
10. karunyam tat kriya heturnanyadaptakamatvat
Devoid of any material need and desire, Sri Krsna performs His transcendental
activities only due to His causeless mercy.
Cit Padartha Prakaranam
11. cetanah paranugatastadvidhivasyatvat
The individual living entities are eternally subordinate to the Supreme Lord Sri
Krsna and are subject to His rules.
12. tecanadhyanantah parasaktivisesatvat
These individual souls are eternal (beginningless and endless being), part and
parcels of (the jiva-sakti) of Sri Krsna.
13. cidananda svarupa api parato bhinna nityasatyatvabhavat
Although constitutionally conscious and blissful, the living entities are certainly
different from the supreme living entity Sri Krsna, who is the eternal Absolute
Truth and Supreme Personality of Godhead.
10. tesam paratvam kecidaparebhedamitare tubhayam
The seers of the truth have established three views regarding the living entity and
the Supreme Lord, namely (a) oneness, (b) difference, and (c) simultaneous
oneness and difference.
15. sarvesam samanj asyam satvika vij nanasya bhramatvabhavat pramana satbhavac
There cannot be a mistake in the scientific evidence of transcendental revelation.
So, all these (three) views are in complete agreement.
16. vicararagau cetana dharmau svarupa pravrtti bhavat
The constitutional nature and character of the living entity is ( t r anscendental)
knowledge and love.
17. pare nurakti svabhaviki sreyaskaricaitaresaupadhiki duhkhapradhac ca
Love of Godhead is the natural and auspicious function of the li v ing entity.
When that love is directed toward objects of material existence it becomes the
source of all miseries.
18. upadhikrta hi klesah
Miseries arise from attachments to material existence.
19. anartha nivrtti-r muktih svapada prapa-katvat
Cessation of unwanted miseries brings one to the platform of l i b eration where
the constitutional position (as servant of Krsna) is realized.
20. jivanam itaranurakti heturisvara karunyam tata eva tesam svatantrya siddheh
T he material attachments of the living entities result from their m i n u t e
independence, awarded to them by the mercy of Sri Krsna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.
Acit Padartha Prakaranam
21. maya saktiraci-dgunavati paravarakarya rupac ca
The external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna is
endowed with material qualities whose transformation results in the evolution of
many details of this unlimited cosmic manifestation.
22. j adatvat krtisunya cetana prerita bhavati saj nj avavat
Matter being unconscious, cannot act by itself. When activated by consciousness
(spirit) it begins to work.
23. sa parananuraktanam karavadhehati bandhanarupa
Those living entities who are averse to Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, are imprisoned in variegated bodies by the external energy, maya.
29. anadirananta ca paramesvara saktitatvat
The external energy is without beginning or end because it is the divine energy
of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna.
25. kalenarthantaram baddhanam prakrti sambandha rupa-tvat
Time is a form of relation between the conditioned souls and the external
energy.
26. saivadhisthanarupini desa samj nita
The external energy constitutes the accomodation, which is known as space.
27. jade baddhasyananda bhramo vaikuntha bhramascasangat
Conditioned by matter, the living entity mistakes sense gratification as bliss and
material existence as the transcendental abode due to association with matter.
28. vivekena tato vimuktih
To become free from these delusions one should discriminate by transcendental
knowledge of the Absolute Truth.
29. na ca prakrtavadindriyagrahyatvam vaikunthasyadhaksaj atvat
The spiritual world is transcendental — beyond mundane sensual perception.
30. indriyani tadvisayastajj ata bhavas ca manasasaha prakrtascid
upadhitvajj anyatvac ca
The mundane senses, sense objects, the feelings derived from their co n tact, and
the mind — all these are 'material' in existence, due to the conditioned state of the
living entities.
Sambandha Prakaranam
31. bhaktih purnanuraktih pare
Bhakti is unalloyed full attachment to Krsna, the transcendental Lord.
32. tasyah svarupam phalamupayasceti
According to the situation of the living entities (i.e. conditioned or liberated)
devotional service is also understood to be in two stages (phala: end, fruition.
upaya: means, regulative).
33. phalabhakte nanyadangamekatvat svatasiddhatvac ca
Spontaneous love of God is independent, unalloyed and constitutionally the
nature of the living entity and therefore does not have any other limbs.
39. upayabhakteh paranusilanam pratyaharascangah
Cultivation of favorable devotion and retraction from sense gratificatory
activities are the two limbs of regulated devotion.
35. sravana kirtanadini paranusilanopayogitvat tat pratyangani
The nine processes of devotional service, beginning with hearing and chanting,
are the means by which one can develop such favorable devotional love for Krsna.
36.deharatham manah sarathi mindriya haya mastikyajnanena yuktavairanyena ca
visayamargarcanai nivartayedesa eva pratyaharah
The body is the chariot. The mind is the charioteer, the senses are the horses.
Driving this chariot back home (toward Krsna consciousness) from the path of
sense gratification by the help of tr anscendental knowledge and proper
engagement of everything i n d ev otional service is known as pratyahara
(retraction).
37. j nananmuktih j nanadbandhas ca
Transcendental knowledge is the cause of liberation and mundane materialistic
knowledge is the cause of bondage.
38. vairagyanmuktih vairagyat bandhas ca
Engagement of everything in Krsna's service is the cause of liberation and
pseudo-renunciation is the cause of bondage.
39. pratyaharasampatteh parabhaktyasiddhavapi nadhah patanam
If one is not fully free from sense gratification, the cultivation of devotional
practices will not award transcendental love for Krsna, although there will be no
downfall.
90. pratyaharasamrddhya sadhanam bhavastayaiva bhavat prema
T o the extent of freedom from sense gratification, one can perform pu r e
regulated devotional service, which turns into 'bhava' bhakti which w il l u l t i m a t ely
bloom into love for Krsna.
Siddhanta Prakaranam
01. j nanasuryasyehi rasmayah sastrani
Revealed scriptures are the rays of transcendental knowledge.
+2. sastramaksamesu va2iyo vivekinam naitattanmu2a prapteh
Rules and regulations are for regulating the ignorant conditioned souls; those
who have attained their constitutional awareness are not limi ted by such
conditions.
93. bhakteyna sastram tadvidherj nanavirodhitvat
Unnalloyed devotees of Sri Krsna are not to be limited by the con di t i ons of
scriptural rules because their activities are based on spontaneous attachment
which is transcendental to rules and regulations.
bhaktau .na varnasramavidhih sa tasyaj nanaparatvat
Self-realized devotees of Krsna, due to attainment of knowledge of their
constitutional position, are beyond the codes of varnasrama.
95. ajnahitartham grahyam karma na virodhi
A selfless performance of activities for the welfare of ignorant people doesn't
create impediment in devotion.
06. yathadhikaramavasthitirnoparyadhastvat
One should perform devotional service according to one's acquired nature and
qualifications.
97. kamyetarabhaktirnasasta cittaviksepatvadanitya phalatvac ca
The original affinity of the living entities for Sri Krsna, when degraded and
misdirected toward others results in bewilderment of consciousness and material
attainments.
98. pratyaksanumanabhyam bhagavata siddhanta eva gariyan vij nanamayatvat sarva
siddhantasrayatvac ca
Among realized knowledge and inference pertaining to the conclusion of it,
Srimad-Bhagavatam is the highest because it is transcendentally scientific and is
the shelter of all conclusions.
99.caitanyasya sarvacaryasyavirbhave na gurvantaram
At the manifestation of Sri Chaitanya, who is the universal acaryya and monitor
of all souls, all other preceptors become secondary, for the soul is directly inspired
by the Lord. (In the absoluteness of the teachings of Lord Caitanya, other
acaryas are absolved!)
50. pare purnanurakti ritaresu tulyajade yukta vairagyanceti saragrahi matam
Unalloyed love toward Sri Krsna, compassionate affection toward oth ers and
dovetailing everything in the material existence in the service of Krsna, constitute
the cream of religious principles as far as the essence-seeking transcendentalists
are concerned.
