SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 2 verse 21<\/a><\/p>\n vAsAmsi jIrNAni yathA vihAya navAni gruhNAthi narO \u2019parANi |<\/em> nara: – man Like how a man gives up worn out clothes and accepts new clothes, the AthmA (who dwells in the body) gives up worn out bodies and nicely acquires other new bodies.<\/p>\n As, casting off worn out garments, man puts on other new ones, so does the dweller of the body eschew worn out bodies and migrate to new ones.<\/span><\/p>\n We learn from the \u015a\u0101stras that those who drop their bodies in a righteous war, receive other bodies of a surpassingly more blessed character. Such an event, in our opinion, is certainly matter for unmixed rejoicing, as is the case of one who doffs worn our raiment (clothing) and dons a new and more decent one.<\/span><\/p>\n Again, now, the subject of the indestructibility of \u0101tm\u0101 enounced in verse: \u201cKnow that that<\/em> verily is indestructible, by which<\/em> all this is pervaded\u201d (II-17<\/a>), is developed for better comprehension, and the subject is emphasized as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 2 verse 23<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 2 << Chapter 2 verse 21 SlOkam \u2013 Original vAsAmsi jIrNAni yathA vihAya navAni gruhNAthi narO \u2019parANi | thathA SarIrANi vihAya jIrNAni anyAni samyAthi navAni dhEhI || word-by-word meaning nara: – man yathA – how jIrNAni vAsAmsi – worn out clothes vihAya – give … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-2","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n thathA SarIrANi vihAya jIrNAni anyAni samyAthi navAni dhEhI ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nyathA – how
\njIrNAni vAsAmsi – worn out clothes
\nvihAya – give up
\naparANi navAni (vAsAmsi) – other new clothes
\ngruhNAthi – will accept
\nthathA – like that
\ndhEhI – AthmA (who dwells in the body)
\njIrNAni SarIrANi – worn out bodies
\nvihAya – give up
\nanyAni navAni (SarIrANi) – other new bodies
\nsamyAthi – nicely acquires<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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