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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 26 SlOkam – Original naithE sruthI pArtha jAnan yOgI muhyathi kaSchana | thasmAth sarvEshu kAlEshu yOgayukthO bhavArjuna || word-by-word meaning pArtha arjuna – Oh arjuna, son of kunthI! EthE sruthI – These two paths, archirAdhi and dhUmAdhi jAnan – … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 26 Simple naite sṛtī pārtha jānan yogī muhyati kaścana tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu yoga-yukto bhavārjuna ‘Knowing these Paths, Partha! no yogi will be deluded. At all times, therefore, Arjuna! be united in yoga.’ Knowing these Paths, the yogi will not … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 25 SlOkam – Original SuklakrishNE gathI hyEthE jagatha: SASvathE mathE | EkayA yAthyanAvruththim anyayA’’varthathE puna: || word-by-word meaning EthE Sukla krishNE gathI – these two paths namely archirAdhi gathi and dhUmAdhi gathi jagatha: – (respectively) for gyAnis and pious … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 25 Simple śukla-kṛṣṇe gatī hy ete jagataḥ śāśvate mate ekayā yāty anāvṛttim anyayāvartate punaḥ ‘Verily are these Paths —the White and the Black— permanently ordained for the Kosmos. By the one, the non-returning (state) is reached, by the other, … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 24 SlOkam – Original dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa: shaNmAsA dhakshiNAyanam | thathra chAndhramasam jyOthir yOgI prApya nivarthathE || word-by-word meaning dhUma: – smoke rAthri – night thathA krishNa: – in the same manner, krishNa paksha (dark fortnight beginning after … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 24 Simple dhūmo rātris tathā kṛṣṇaḥ ṣaṇ-māsā dakṣiṇāyanam tatra cāndramasaṁ jyotir yogī prāpya nivartate ‘Smoke, night and similarly the dark fortnight, and the six months of the south (solstitial) declination; —there, attaining to Lunar light, the yogi returns.[2. This … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 23 SlOkam – Original agnir jyOthir aha: Sukla: shaNmAsA uththarAyaNam | thathra prayAthA gachchanthi brahma brahmavidhO janA: || word-by-word meaning agnirjyOthi: – archis (ray of light) aha: – ahas (day) Sukla: – Sukla paksha (bright fortnight which starts after … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 23 Simple agnir jyotir ahaḥ śuklaḥ ṣaṇ-māsā uttarāyaṇam tatra prayātā gacchanti brahma brahma-vido janāḥ ‘Fire, light, day-time, the bright fortnight, the six months of the north (solstitial) declination, then, going forth, the Brahma-knowing men go to Brahm.[1. This is … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 22 SlOkam – Original yathra kAlE thvanAvruththim Avruththim chaiva yOgina: | prayAthA yAnthi tham kAlam vakshyAmi bharatharshabha || word-by-word meaning bharatharshabha! – Oh scion of bharatha clan! yathra kAlE prayAthA: yOgina:thu – the yOgis who take up different means … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 22 Simple yatra kāle tv anāvṛttim āvṛttiṁ caiva yoginaḥ prayātā yānti taṁ kālaṁ vakṣyāmi bharatarṣabha ‘At what time departing, the yogis (bhaktas), return, and (at what time) return not, that time O Bharata-Chief[3. Nom de Guerre and patronymic of … Read more