{"id":1516,"date":"2016-08-27T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2016-08-27T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:58:29","slug":"2-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-70\/","title":{"rendered":"2.70 ApUryamANam achalaprathishtam"},"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\/2-69\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 69<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-70-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>ApUryamANam achalaprathishtam samudhram Apa: praviSanthi yadhvath |<br \/>\nthadhvath kAmA yam praviSanthi sarvE sa SAnthim ApnOthi na kAmakAmI ||<\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>yadhvath &#8211; like<\/p>\n<p>ApUryamANam &#8211; naturally full<\/p>\n<p>achalaprathishtam &#8211; motionless<\/p>\n<p>samudhram &#8211; ocean<\/p>\n<p>Apa: &#8211; river waters<\/p>\n<p>praviSanthi &#8211; how they enter<\/p>\n<p>thadhvath &#8211; similarly<\/p>\n<p>sarvE kAmA: &#8211; all worldly pleasures such as Sabdham (sound) etc<\/p>\n<p>yam &#8211; who (controlled his sensory organs)<\/p>\n<p>praviSanthi &#8211; enter<\/p>\n<p>sa: &#8211; he alone<\/p>\n<p>SAnthim &#8211; the peace of being relieved from worldly pleasures<\/p>\n<p>ApnOthi &#8211; attains;<\/p>\n<p>kAma kAmI &#8211;\u00a0 one who becomes disturbed by desiring for worldly pleasures<\/p>\n<p>na &#8211; does not attain peace<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Like the river waters enter into the ocean which is naturally full and motionless, similarly all worldly pleasures such as Sabdham (sound) etc enter the one who (controlled his sensory organs); he alone attains the peace of being relieved from worldly pleasures; one who becomes disturbed by desiring for worldly pleasures does not attain peace.<\/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;\">&#8216;Like unto the waters entering a full and commotion-less ocean, when all desires enter (the like-minded) man, that man attains peace; not the lust-craving man (<em>k\u0101ma-k\u0101mi<\/em>).&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sea is full in itself, and always preserves one form. The waters of rivers enter it. Whether they enter or not enter, the sea undergoes no difference whatever. Even so, when all sense-objects like sound etc. enter into the <em>sa\u1e43yam\u012b<\/em> (sense-victor), -meaning that when they (sound etc.) become apprehended by his senses, (he preserves calmness),- <em>he attains peace<\/em>: He attains peace, that is to say, whose satisfaction from <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>-cognition prevents his becoming disturbed (or corrupted) whether sounds etc., (i.e., sense-delights) contact his senses or not contact them. But not the <em>k\u0101mak\u0101m\u012b<\/em> (the hungerer after desires), or he who permits himself to be sold by his lusts. Never can such a person achieve peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-71\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 2 verse 71<\/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 69 SlOkam \u2013 Original ApUryamANam achalaprathishtam samudhram Apa: praviSanthi yadhvath | thadhvath kAmA yam praviSanthi sarvE sa SAnthim ApnOthi na kAmakAmI || word-by-word meaning yadhvath &#8211; like ApUryamANam &#8211; naturally full achalaprathishtam &#8211; motionless samudhram &#8211; ocean Apa: &#8211; &#8230; <a title=\"2.70 ApUryamANam achalaprathishtam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-70\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2.70 ApUryamANam achalaprathishtam\">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-1516","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\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}