{"id":1226,"date":"2016-08-07T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2016-08-07T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:18:17","slug":"2-40-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-40-original\/","title":{"rendered":"2.40 neh\u0101bhikrama-n\u0101\u015bo \u2019sti (Original)"},"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-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-39-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 39<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">neh\u0101bhikrama-n\u0101\u015bo \u2019sti<br \/>\npratyav\u0101yo na vidyate<br \/>\nsv-alpam apy asya dharmasya<br \/>\ntr\u0101yate mahato bhay\u0101t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018In this[1. That is Karma-Yoga or doing works as duty with no interest in fruit. This is the philosophy of action.] there is no loss of effort, nor can any harm accrue. Even an iota of this Dharma[2. <em>Dharma<\/em> here means the right performance of work.] saves from great fear.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any little effort that may have been made in this[2. That is Karma-Yoga or doing works as duty with no interest in fruit. This is the philosophy of action.], viz, <em>karma-yoga<\/em>, is not in vain. <em>Abhikrama<\/em> means <em>\u0101rambha<\/em>=beginning (i.e., effort). <em>N\u0101\u015ba<\/em>=destruction, i.e., the destruction or loss, that the effort is means to a certain fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No failure of fruit attends even when a duty begun is not completed on account of interruptions intervening. And no harm whatever will accrue if it be interrupted at the commencement itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018<em>Even an iota of this dharma saves from great fear<\/em>\u2019: viz., the fear of <em>sams\u0101ra<\/em> (mundane career).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This same truth is further elaborated in verse:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Neither here, nor hereafter, is there loss to him, P\u0101rtha!\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-40-original\/\">Bh: GI: VI-40<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are other ways (or efforts) both secular (<em>laukik<\/em>) and Scriptural (<em>Vaidik<\/em>), which when interrupted become abortive, and are moreover attended with evil consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between the wisdom of performing fructiferous action (<em>k\u0101mya<\/em>), and the wisdom of performing action with final deliverance (<em>moksha<\/em>) as aim, is now pointed out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-41-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 2 verse 41<\/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.org<\/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 39 Simple neh\u0101bhikrama-n\u0101\u015bo \u2019sti pratyav\u0101yo na vidyate sv-alpam apy asya dharmasya tr\u0101yate mahato bhay\u0101t \u2018In this[1. That is Karma-Yoga or doing works as duty with no interest in fruit. 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