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'''''Vakya Vritti''''' is a [[Vedantic]] [[textbook]], a small treatise, that concerns itself with the detailed and elaborate explanation of two [[Mahāvākyas]] – '''[[Brihadaranyaka Upanishad|aham brahmāsmi]]''' and '''[[Tat Tvam Asi|tat tvam asi]]''' which great [[Sruti]] sentences are intended to give a direct perception of [[Brahman]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Panchadasi: a treatise on Advaita Metaphysics|author=Madhava|year=1956|publisher=Shanti Sadan|page=113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHZQAQAAIAAJ&q=Vakya+vritti}}</ref> In his ''Laghu vakya vritti'' [[Adi Shankara]] deals with the former vakya only.<ref>{{cite book|title= Tattvaloka Vol.19.|year=1996|publisher=Sri Abhinava Vidyatheerthe Educational Trust|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7jWAAAAMAAJ&q=Vakya+vritti}}</ref><br />
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''Vakya Vritti'' is a text of fifty-two [[Sanskrit]] [[Sloka meter|sloka]]s written by [[Adi Shankara]] and is in the form of a dialogue between an eager student and an enlightened teacher. There exists a very old commentary on this text but the name of its author is not known.<ref>{{cite book|title= A Contribution Towards an Index to the Bibliography of Indian|author=Fitzedward Hall|year=1859|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m44-AAAAcAAJ&dq=Vakya+vritti&pg=PA106}}</ref> Swami [[Chinmayananda]]'s commentary on this exhaustive exposition of the Mahavakya [[Tat Tvam Asi]] was published in 1981. To explain each [[mantra]] as lucidly as a [[Guru]] (teacher) can is called Vritti. In ''Vakya Vritti'' a student approaches his Guru with a confession that the subject Mahavakya does not add up to any vivid understanding in his mind, and the teacher patiently elucidates what exactly the scripture means by the words employed in this significant sentence.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vakya Vritti of Adi Sankara|author=Swami Chinmayananda|date=January 1985|publisher=Central Chinmaya Mission Trust|page=2|url=https://www.amazon.com/Vakya-Vritti-Sankara-Swami-Chinmayananda/dp/B003WBO0DC}}</ref><br />
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== The Major Premises ==<br />
The dialogue of the ''Vakya Vritti'' can be thought of as having the following major premises:<br />
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1) Tvam (You) refers to the spark of [[Divinity]] within each sentient being, which enlivens that being<br /><br />
2) Tat (That) refers to the immortal [[Brahman]], the source of all life all around<br/><br />
3) Asi (are) refers to the Tvam-substance and the Tat-substance as being the same entity<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{wiktionary|vakya vritti}}[https://shantisadan.org/book-content/understanding-that-thou-art/ ''Vakya Vritti'' Understanding That Thou Art] Translated with a commentary by Hari Prasad Shastri <br />
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