{"id":1766,"date":"2016-09-21T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2016-09-21T19:08:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:08:25","slug":"3-21-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-21-original\/","title":{"rendered":"3.21 yad yad \u0101carati \u015bre\u1e63\u1e6dhas (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\/3-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-20-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">yad yad \u0101carati \u015bre\u1e63\u1e6dhas<br \/>\ntat tad evetaro jana\u1e25<br \/>\nsa yat pram\u0101\u1e47a\u1e41 kurute<br \/>\nlokas tad anuvartate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;What the wise man doth, another doth likewise;<br \/>\nwhat law he may make, the world follows it.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering from the stand-point that by one\u2019s acts the world is profitted, then oughtest he to act (i.e., act altruistically.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u015aresh\u1e6dha\u1e25<\/em>: is a wise man, a worthy man, a man of note and respectability; and is one well versed in \u015a\u0101stras[1. \u015a\u0101stra means laws, learning, and therefore spiritual laws or science embodied in the Vedas or S\u1e5butis, etc.]. Whatever such a man does, is imitated by all other men. It may be that it is generally known that a certain act is one which ought to be performed, yet all men wait to see how a good man, a leader of society, takes the initiative, and then they will do it, following suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence a man of special distinction or character ought always to show the example to the world, by first playing himself the part in all duties assigned to his caste (<em>var\u1e47a<\/em>[2. The four <em>var\u1e47as<\/em> are Br\u0101hma\u1e47a, Kshatriya, Vai\u015bya and \u015a\u016bdra.]) and order in life (<em>\u0101\u015brama<\/em>[3. The four \u0101\u015bramas are Brahmacharya (bachelor and student), G\u0101rhastya (married life), V\u0101naprastha (retired forest life) and Sany\u0101sa (monastic or ascetic life).]). If he should fail to do so, he commits sin, \u2014the sin of not having benefitted the world by example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consequence to himself will further be that he will slip from the Path of his own <em>j\u00f1\u0101na-yoga<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-22-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 3 verse 22<\/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 3 &lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 20 Simple yad yad \u0101carati \u015bre\u1e63\u1e6dhas tat tad evetaro jana\u1e25 sa yat pram\u0101\u1e47a\u1e41 kurute lokas tad anuvartate &#8216;What the wise man doth, another doth likewise; what law he may make, the world follows it.&#8217; Considering from the stand-point that &#8230; <a title=\"3.21 yad yad \u0101carati \u015bre\u1e63\u1e6dhas (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-21-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 3.21 yad yad \u0101carati \u015bre\u1e63\u1e6dhas (Original)\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}