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1. Give the English meanings of the words prakåtià, puruña, and jïeyaà. (1)

Prakatia – nature or material energy ( 13.5)

Puruna – enjoyer or individual soul (13.22 )
Jieyaa - knowable or object of knowledge ( 13.12 )
2. List five levels of brahma pucchaà pratiñöhä as stated in the Taittiréya Upaniñad 2.9. (5)

Anna-maya = dependence up on food for existence

Prana – maya = absolute truth in the living symptoms or life forms.
Jnana – maya = realization extends beyond the living symptoms to the pt of thinking, feeling and willing.
Vijnana – maya – Brahman realization.
Ananda – maya = realization of all blissful nature.

3. List the 24 components of this world. (6-7)

five great elements (mahā-bhūta). earth, water, fire, air and ether.
five senses for acquiring knowledge: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin
five working senses: voice, legs, hands, anus and genitals
mind, false ego, intelligence
five objects of the senses: smell, taste, form, touch and sound.
4. List, in Sanskrit or English, ten of the 20 items of knowledge. (8-12)

Humility; pridelessness; non violence; tolerance; simplicity;

Approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification ;
Absence of false ego; perception of evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment,; freedom from entanglement with children,
wife, and the rest;
Even-mindedness amid pleasant and un- pleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to me; aspiring to live in a solitary place;
detachment from general mass of people;
Accepting the importance of self – realization; philosophical search for the absolute truth.

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5. What is the mahat-tattva? (3)

The mahat – tattva is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestation, and the total substance of the material cause, in which there are 3
modes of nature is sometimes called Brahman. The supreme personality impregnates that total substance, and thus innumerable universe
become possible.

6. How do those situated in the mode of goodness become conditioned? (6)

Mode of goodness , he become conditioned to feel that he is advanced in knowledge and is better than others . Each one is very proud of his
knowledge, and because they generally improve their living conditions, they feel a sort to material happiness . This sense of advance happiness
in conditioned life makes them bound by the mode of goodness . there is no likely hood of liberation.

7. The mode of passion is characterized by what? (7)

The mode of passion is characterized by the attraction b/w man and women. When mode of passion increased one develops the hankering for
material enjoyment. As long as one his hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. He becomes associate with fruits of his actives
and thus he become bound by such actives,

8. List 3 results of the mode of ignorance. (8)

The result of this mode are madness, very lazy, degraded, indolence, and more sleep, dejected, addicted to intoxicants which binds the
condition soul.
9. Those situated in goodness, passion, and ignorance progress in which directions? (18)

Those situations in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher plants,
Those mode of passion, live on the earthly plants
Those mode of ignorance , go down to the hellish world.

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10. Give the English meaning of ürdhva-mülam and adhaù-çäkham. (1)

Urdhva-mulam = roots above

Adhau-cakham = downward branches.

11. What do the leaves of the banyan tree refer to? (1)

Vedic hymns

12. What is the tree of the material world situated on? (1)

Reflection on the water

13. This banyan tree is nourished by what? (2)

3 modes of material nature. ( goodness, passion, & ignorance )

14. Give the English meaning of asaìga-çastreëa. (3-4)

By the weapon of detachment

15. Give three examples of how Kåñëa maintains this material world. (12 -14)

By providing sunlight and rain: Krishna maintains the material world by providing sunlight and rain, essential for the growth of vegetation and
sustenance of life.
Reference: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 3.14 (Chapter 3, Verse 14)

By assuming various forms: Krishna maintains the material world by assuming various forms to establish and protect righteousness and to
annihilate the miscreants.
Reference: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 4.8 (Chapter 4, Verse 8)

By entering the hearts of all living beings: Krishna maintains the material world by entering the hearts of all living beings and directing their
actions and movements according to their karma.
Reference: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 15.15 (Chapter 15, Verse 15)

16. What do the words kñaraù and akñaraù refer to? (17)

Kṣaraḥ: This term refers to the perishable, mutable aspect of creation, which includes all material manifestations that undergo change, decay,
and destruction.
Akṣaraḥ: On the other hand, "akṣaraḥ" denotes the imperishable, immutable aspect of creation, which is beyond change and destruction. It
refers to the eternal spiritual realm or the transcendental aspect of existence.

17. What does the word puruñottamam refer to? (19)

Supreme personality of god head ,

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18. Give the English meaning of the following words: sampadaà (1-3), pravåtti and nivåtti

(7), anéçvaram (8), and ugra-karmäëaù. (9)

Sampadaa – wealth or opulence ( 16.1,4 , 5 )

Pravatti – engagement in furtive activity or worldly pursuits ( 18.5)
Nivatti – renunciation or cessation from material activity ( 18.6)
Anecvaram – with no controller
Urga – karmaeau – engaged in painful activates.

19. Who was the best example of a demoniac man? (16)

Ravana

20. Give the English meaning of mäm apräpyaiva kaunteya. (20)

O son of kunti, such person can never approach me (or)

O son of kunti, certainly w/o achieving me

21. List the three gates leading to hell. (21)

Lust , anger & greed

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22. Name the three kinds of faith (2)

Mode of Goodness, passion and ignorance

23. List the six results of eating food in the mode of goodness. (8)

Increasing the duration of life, Purifying our existence, Give strength , heath
Happiness & Satisfaction.
24. Austerity of the body consists of what eight items? (14)

Worshiping the supreme lord, Brahmana, spiritual master, superior like father & mother,
In cleanliness, simplicity, celibacy, non – voliance.
25. Give the English meaning of svädhyäya abhyasanam. (15)

Practicing of the Vedic study.

26. List four symptoms of charity in the mode of goodness. (20)

Charity given at the place of piligrimage on lunar & solar eclips,

At the end of month , to a qualified brahmana in temple
27. The three words oà tat sat indicate what? (23)

Supreme absolute truth

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28. List symptoms of renunciation in the mode of passion. (6)
They act out of pride, false ego, lust, & attachment for material enjoyment.
29. List the five causes for the accomplishment of all action. (14)

The place of action ( body ) , the performer, the various senses, the many kind of endeavor, and ultimately the super soul.

30. List three symptoms of happiness in the mode of goodness. (37)

Beginning may be just like poison, at the end is just like nectar, it awakens on to self realizations.

31. List three symptoms of happiness in the mode of passion. (38)

Happiness which is derived form the contact of senses with their objects, beginning appears like nectar and end is just like poison.

32. List five symptoms of happiness in the mode of ignorance (39)

Happiness which is blind to self realization, which is delusion ( false belif) from beginning to end.
Which arises from sleep, laziness & illusion.
33. List nine qualities by which the brähmaëas work. (42)

Peacefulness, self control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness.

34. List six symptoms of surrender in Sanskrit or English (66)

 He is Confident that in all circumstance krsna will protect him from all difficulty.
 He will not think how to keep the body & soul together.
 Always think himself helpless and should consider krsna the only basis for his progress in life.
 Seriously engaged himself in devotional service to the lord in full KC
 He will not follow different process of religion & purification process by cultivation of knowledge (janani ), & mediation in mystic
yoga system ( yogi ).
 By Surrender to Krishna will save him from unnecessary wasting time, thus make all progress at once and freed from all sinful
reactions.

35. This confidential knowledge may never be explained to whom? (67)

Those who are not austere ( very strict and serious ) , not devoted, not engaged in devotional service, one who is envious of Krishna.