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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verses 3 and 3.5 Simple tam eva cādyaṁ puruṣaṁ prapadye yataḥ pravṛttiḥ prasṛtā purāṇī ‘Let Him the Primal Purusha alone be sought as the Refuge —He from Whom is the old will (or impulses) derived.’ He is Primal or the Beginning … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 2.5 SlOkam – Original aSvaththam Enam suvirUdamUlam asangaSasthrENa drudEna chithvA | thatha: padham thath parimArgithavyam yasmin gathA na nivarthanthi bhUya: || word-by-word meaning Enam – previously explained suvirUdamUlam – having deeply fixed root aSvaththam – the peepal tree (i.e., … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 2.5 Simple aśvattham enaṁ su-virūḍha-mūlam asaṅga-śastreṇa dṛḍhena chittvā tataḥ padaṁ tat parimārgitavyaṁ yasmin gatā na nivartanti bhūyaḥ ‘Having by the mighty weapon of non-attachment, hewn down this firm-rooted Aśvattha; Then is that state to be sought after, reaching which … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 2 SlOkam – Original na rUpam asyEha thathOpalabhyathE nAnthO na chAdhir na cha samprathishtA || word-by-word meaning asya – of this tree rUpam – the aforementioned form iha – by the samsAris (materialistic people) in this earthly abode thathA … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 2 Simple na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate nānto na cādir na ca sampratiṣṭhā ‘Neither its shape as such, nor its end, nor beginning nor source, is here understood.’ By people immersed in Samsāra, the shape (i.e., the meaning) of this … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 1.5 SlOkam – Original adhaS cha mUlAnyanusanthathAni karmAnubandhIni manushyalOkE | word-by-word meaning (for this material realm which is a tree) adha: manushyalOkE cha – in the manushya lOka (earth), which is below karmAnubandhIni – bondage of karma (deeds) mUlAni … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 1.5 Simple adhaś ca mūlāny anusantatāni karmānubandhīni manuṣya-loke ‘Below, in the world of men, do stretch its karma-bound rootlets.’ This Tree having the root in Brahma-loka, and the (branch-)ends in (the world of) man, has its rootlets again in … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 1 SlOkam – Original adhaS chOrdhvam cha prasruthAs thasya SAkhA guNapravrudhdhA vishayapravALA: | word-by-word meaning thasya – that tree’s SAKhA: – (some more) branches guNa pravrudhdhA: – nourished by the qualities such as sathva, rajas and thamas vishaya pravALA: … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 1 Simple adhaś cordhvaṁ prasṛtās tasya śākhā guṇa-pravṛddhā viṣaya-pravālāḥ ‘Below as well as above, do its branches spread nourished by the Guṇas[1. Or qualities or properties of matter, Satvam &c., (note 1, verse 2.45)]; its sprouts (are) the sense … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 Introduction SlOkam – Original SrI bhagavAn uvAcha UrdhvamUlam adha:SAkham aSvaththam prAhur avyayam | chandhAmsi yasya parNAni yas tham vEdha sa vEdhavith || word-by-word meaning SrI bhagavAn uvAcha – Shri bhagavan said (yam) aSvaththam – that samsAram which is [like] a … Read more