Talk:Sadvidhlinga

saḍvidhaliñgas Śravaṇa (listening to Vedāntic state¬ments), manana (deep reflection upon them) and nididhyāsana (meditation on the truths intellectually realised) is the standard method of Vedānta sādhanā (spiritual practice). When the aspirant listens to the statements of the Srutis (the Upaniṣads), he must be able to understand their meaning and purport very clearly. Then only the next two steps are possible. To get a clear understanding of the scriptural statements one has to apply the test of ṣaḍvidhaliṅgas. Saḍ means six and a liṅga is a characteristic sign. These are: upakrama and upasaiṅhāra (statement of the subject in the beginning and reiterat¬ing it at the end); abhyāsa or repetition (repeated emphasis on this subject to fix it in the mind); apurvatā or originality (showing that the meaning of this sentence cannot be gathered from any other source since it has never been stated earlier); phala or use (the utility of following the teaching thus obtained); arthavāda or eulogy (praising the greatness of the topic to make it palatable); upapatti or reason¬ing (logic in support of the main subject.