{"id":1167,"date":"2016-07-27T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:32:22","slug":"2-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-29\/","title":{"rendered":"2.29 AScharyavath paSyathi kaSchidhEnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-28\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 28<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-29-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>AScharyavath paSyathi kaSchidhEnam AScharyavadh vadhathi thathaiva chAnya: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> AScharyavach chainam anya: SruNOthi SruthvApi Enam vEdha na chaiva kaSchith ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>Ascharyavath &#8211; being amazing<br \/>\nEnam &#8211; this AthmA<br \/>\nkaSchith Eva &#8211; one (among crores of persons)<br \/>\npaSyathi &#8211; see<br \/>\nthathA &#8211; in the same manner<br \/>\nAscharyavath (Enam) &#8211; being amazing (such AthmA)<br \/>\nanya: (Eva) &#8211; another one (among crores of persons)<br \/>\nvadhathi &#8211; speaks<br \/>\nAscharyavath Enam &#8211; being amazing (such AthmA)<br \/>\nanya: (Eva) &#8211; yet another one (among crores of persons)<br \/>\nSruNOthi &#8211; listens<br \/>\nSruthvA api &#8211; even after listening<br \/>\nkaSchith Eva cha &#8211; even one<br \/>\nEnam &#8211; this AthmA<br \/>\nna vEdha: &#8211; does not understand<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>One (among crores of persons) sees this AthmA as amazing; another one (among crores of persons) speaks about this amazing AthmA ; yet another one (among crores of persons) listens about this amazing AthmA; but even after listening, not even one person understands this AthmA [truly].<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018One looks on this (<em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>) as wonderful; similarly someone else speaks of it in wonderment; another hears about it as wonderful but no one knows at all what it is.'[2. Cf. \u015arava\u1e47ay\u0101pi bahubhir-yona labhyah, s\u1e5bi\u1e47vantopi bahavo yam na vidyuh, \u0101\u015bcharya vakt\u0101 ku\u015balosya labdh\u0101 (Kat: Up: II-7). This \u015aruti is with reference to <em>Param\u0101tma<\/em>.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amongst innumerable beings, rarely is there one whose sins have become expunged by rigorous austerities, and who has so accumulated merit as to realize <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em> in its singularly distinct nature as such from all the rest of things, according to the description given above. Such a person talks about it to another. Another person similarly circumstanced gives it listening and so on. But no one definitely understands the true nature of <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>. The conjunctive particle <em>cha<\/em> used at the end of the verse is to connote that even among the seers, talkers and listeners of <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>, the definite seeing, the definite talking and the definite listening, of what <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em> precisely is, is rare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-30\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 2 verse 30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 2 &lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 28 SlOkam \u2013 Original AScharyavath paSyathi kaSchidhEnam AScharyavadh vadhathi thathaiva chAnya: | AScharyavach chainam anya: SruNOthi SruthvApi Enam vEdha na chaiva kaSchith || word-by-word meaning Ascharyavath &#8211; being amazing Enam &#8211; this AthmA kaSchith Eva &#8211; one (among crores &#8230; <a title=\"2.29 AScharyavath paSyathi kaSchidhEnam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-29\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2.29 AScharyavath paSyathi kaSchidhEnam\">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-1167","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\/1167","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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}