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SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 24.5 Simple brahmāgnāv apare yajñaṁ yajñenaivopajuhvati ‘Others pour into Brahma-fire, yajña with yajña’[1. Cp: ‘Yajñena yajñam ayajanta Devāh.’ (Tait: Up°. Purusha-sūkta).]. Here, with yajña refers to the apparatus, food etc., used in the (Vedic) Sacrifices.’ Others, (karma-yogis), adopt for … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 24 Simple daivam evāpare yajñaṁ yoginaḥ paryupāsate ‘Some Yogis devoutly observe the Daiva-yajña only.’ Daivam yajñam=Sacrifices or acts of worshipping the Divinity itself (God). This, some yogis i.e., some Karma-yogis, devoutly practise. That is, they make this, their fixed … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 24 SlOkam – Original dhaivam EvAparE yagyam yOgina: paryupAsathE | word-by-word meaning aparE yOgina: – Some other karma yOgis dhaivam – worshipping dhEvathAs yagyam Eva – yagya (sacrifice) only paryupAsathE – are specifically engaged. Simple Translation Some other karma … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 23 SlOkam – Original brahmArpaNam brahma havir brahmAgnau brahmaNA hutham | brahmaiva thEna ganthavyam brahmakarmasamAdhinA || word-by-word meaning brahmArpaNam – offered with materials related to hOma/yagya which are forms of brahma (supreme lord) brahma havi: – the offering which … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 23 Simple brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ brahma-karma-samādhinā ‘By Brahma-apparatus, the Brahma-oblation is, by Brahma, offered in Brahma-fire. He who (so) contemplates karma (work) to be Brahma-full, goeth to Brahma Itself[1. This is the highest … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 22 SlOkam – Original gathasangasya mukthasya gyAnAvasthithachEthasa: | yagyAyAcharatha: karma samagram pravileeyathE || word-by-word meaning gyAnAvasthitha chEthasa – one who is having a heart that is fully engaged in Athma gyAnam (knowledge about self) gatha sangasya – (as a … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 22 Simple gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate ‘All karma[2. Karma here means past deeds of a man, merit and demerit which tie him down to samsāra.] entirely ceases for him, who has ceased from attachment, who has … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 21 SlOkam – Original yadhruchchAlAbhasanthushtO dhvandhvAthIthO vimathsara: | sama: sidhdhAvasidhdhau cha kruthvApi na nibadhyathE || word-by-word meaning yadhruchchA lAbha santhushta: – being satisfied with whatever comes his way (to sustain his body) dhvanthvAthItha: – tolerating the pairs (of joy-sorrow, … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 21 Simple yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ samaḥ siddhāv asiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate ‘Content with whatever gain may, by chance, befal, above ‘pairs’[3. Pairs of opposites’ = ‘cold-heat`s’. The sense-contacts with external phenomena is sensations which are the sense-with-mind-contacts, ‘cold-heat’, … Read more
SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 4 << Chapter 4 verse 20 SlOkam – Original nirASIr yathachiththAthmA thyakthasarvaparigraha: | SArIram kEvalam karma kurvan nApnOthi kilbisham || word-by-word meaning nirASI: – being free from desire for results yathachiththAmA – having mind that is controlled (in relation to worldly aspects) thyaktha sarva … Read more