{"id":1666,"date":"2016-09-08T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2016-09-08T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:40:57","slug":"3-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-7\/","title":{"rendered":"3.7 yas thvindriyANi manasA"},"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\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-6\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 6<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-7-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>yas thvindriyANi manasA niyamyArabhathE\u2019rjuna |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> karmEndhriyai: karmayOgam asaktha: sa viSishyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>arjuna &#8211; Oh arjuna!<br \/>\nya: thu &#8211; that person<br \/>\nmanasA &#8211; with the mind (that is focussed on AthmA)<br \/>\nindhriyANi &#8211; senses<br \/>\nniyamya &#8211; engaging them in activities ordained by SAsthram (which is natural for them)<br \/>\nasaktha: &#8211; without being attached to results<br \/>\nkarmEndhriyai: &#8211; through the karmEndhriyams (sense organs of action) which lean towards actions<br \/>\nkarmayOgam ArabhathE &#8211; begins karma yOga<br \/>\nsa: &#8211; he<br \/>\nviSishyathE &#8211; is greater (than one who is engaging in gyAna yOga)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Oh arjuna! that person who is engaging the senses in activities ordained by SAsthram (which is natural for them) with the mind (that is focussed on AthmA) through the karmEndhriyams (sense organs of action) which lean towards actions,\u00a0without being attached to results and begins karma yOga, is greater (than one who is engaging in gyAna yOga).<\/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;Whoso Arjuna! curbing the senses by the mind, disinterestedly practices <em>Karma-Yoga<\/em> with the organs of action, he is great.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibiting the senses by mental effort, whoso constrains them to cooperate with him in his endeavours to accomplish <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>-vision, by performing the \u015a\u0101stra-enjoined duties, to which, by circumstances of his birth, caste etc., he is fitted, and which come to be naturally facilely performed by his organs, which are as it were made for action, such a person is even more distinguished than the <em>J\u00f1\u0101na-Yogi<\/em> inasmuch as the path of <em>Karma-Yoga<\/em> is free from dangers which are incidental to <em>J\u00f1\u0101na-Yoga<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-8\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 3 verse 8<\/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 3 &lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 6 SlOkam \u2013 Original yas thvindriyANi manasA niyamyArabhathE\u2019rjuna | karmEndhriyai: karmayOgam asaktha: sa viSishyathE || word-by-word meaning arjuna &#8211; Oh arjuna! ya: thu &#8211; that person manasA &#8211; with the mind (that is focussed on AthmA) indhriyANi &#8211; senses &#8230; <a title=\"3.7 yas thvindriyANi manasA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-7\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 3.7 yas thvindriyANi manasA\">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":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-3","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}