Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 68
Sanatkumāra’s Bhāgavata Tantra: Tattvas, Māyā-Bonds, Embodiment, and the Necessity of Dīkṣā
संभोदादस्य विषयः प्राप्नोति व्यवहार्यताम् । सत्त्वा द्विगुणभेदेन स पुनस्त्रिविधो भवेत् ॥ ६८ ॥
saṃbhodādasya viṣayaḥ prāpnoti vyavahāryatām | sattvā dviguṇabhedena sa punastrividho bhavet || 68 ||
Durch Erkenntnis/Bewusstwerdung wird sein Gegenstand für den praktischen Gebrauch im gewöhnlichen Umgang tauglich. Und dieses „sattva“ wird, wenn es nach einer zweifachen Unterscheidung geteilt wird, wiederum dreifach.
Sanatkumara (in instruction to Narada, within Vedanga/technical exposition)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: none
FAQs
It teaches that worldly ‘objects’ become operative only when illuminated by awareness, and it frames sattva (clarity) as a refined principle with further internal gradations—useful for discerning purity of mind in sadhana.
By stressing that experience becomes ‘real’ for practice through awakened awareness, it implies bhakti requires conscious, clarified sattva—so devotion becomes steady and discriminative rather than mechanical.
A technical, analytical method (used across Vedanga-style reasoning) of classifying experiential categories—how cognition relates to its object and how gunas (especially sattva) are subdivided for precise instruction.