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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 8 SlOkam – Original EthAm dhrushtim avashtabhya nashtAthmAnO’lpabudhdhaya: | prabhavanthyugrakarmAna: kshayAya jagathO’SubhA: || word-by-word meaning (The demoniac people) EthAm dhrushtim – this crooked view avashtabhya – holding on to nashtAthmAna: – not seeing the AthmA (which is different from … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 8 Simple etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno ’lpa-buddhayaḥ prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato ’hitāḥ ‘Adopting this view, the soul-lost, small-witted, and deed-cruel, vile (beings), become the ruin of the Universe.’ Adopting : means embracing or holding. Nasht-ātmānaḥ = Soul-lost, or those … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 7 SlOkam – Original asathyam aprathishtam thE jagadhAhur anISvaram | aparasparasambhUtham kim anyath kAmahEthukam || word-by-word meaning thE – Those demoniac persons jagath – the world asathyam aprathishtam anISvaram Ahu: – not saying that “is pervaded by brahmam (lord), … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 7 Simple asatyam apratiṣṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśvaram aparaspara-sambhūtaṁ kim anyat kāma-haitukam ‘Say they: “the Universe is unreal, without prop, without Lord; and what else is it but the product of mutual union, (of male and female) having lust … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 6 SlOkam – Original pravruththim cha nivruththim cha janA na vidhur AsurA: | na Saucham nApi chAchArO na sathyam thEshu vidhyathE || word-by-word meaning AsurA: janA: – the persons who are in demoniac category pravruththim cha – and the … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 6 Simple pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate ‘The Non-divine know not (the ways of) ‘activity’ or of ‘passivity’; ‘Neither cleanliness, nor holy conduct, nor truth is found in … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 5 SlOkam – Original dhvau bhUthasargau lOkE’smin dhaiva Asura Eva cha | dhaivO vistharaSa: prOktha Asuram pArtha mE SruNu || word-by-word meaning pArtha – Oh son of kunthI! asmin lOkE – in this world of [materialistic] actions bhUtha sargau … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 5 Simple dvau bhūta-sargau loke ’smin daiva āsura eva ca daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta āsuraṁ pārtha me śṛṇu ‘Twofold is the creation of beings in this world, Divine and Non-divine. The Divine has been described (thee) at length; hear from … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 4.5 SlOkam – Original mA Sucha: sampadham dhaivIm abhijAthO’si pANdava || word-by-word meaning pANdava – Oh son of pANdu! mA Sucha: – do not grieve (thinking “am I born as an asura?”); dhaivIm sampadham abhijAtha: asi – you are … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 16 << Chapter 16 Verse 4.5 Simple mā śucaḥ sampadaṁ daivīm abhijāto ’si pāṇḍava ‘Grieve not, Pāṇdava! thou art born of the Divine kind.’ Sorrow not. As for thyself, thou belongest to the Divine lot, for art thou not Pāṇdava? or the son of … Read more