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Chapter 3<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 3 verse 23<\/a><\/p>\n uthsIdhEyur imE lokA na kuryAm karma chEdh aham | <\/em> aham – I thus, If I did not perform the actions, the residents of this world (who follow my discipline) will be ruined; I would be the\u00a0 one who caused mixture (impurity in the families of dedicated followers); thus, I would be the cause for the downfall (in the future too) of these people.<\/p>\n ‘Did I not Myself perform work, all these worlds[1. The three worlds is a world-conception. Richard Garbe in his address before the Philological Congress at Chicago, 1893, says: “It may be here remarked, by the way, that the Pythagoreans, and Ocellus in particular, distinguish as parts of the world, the heaven, the earth, and the interval between them, which they term, lofty and aerial.”……”Pythagoras, as after him Ocellus, peoples the middle or a\u0113rial region with demons, as heaven with Gods, and the earth with men. Here again they agree precisely with the Hindus, who place the Gods above, man beneath, and spiritual creatures flitting unseen, in the intermediate regions.”] would go to ruin. I would be creating disorder (sa\u1e47kara<\/em>) and working the downfall of all those creatures.’<\/span><\/p>\n If I, the Lord of all, of Will Infallible, and in Whose command lies the phenomenal display of the kosmos in its several scenes of emanation, continuance and immanation; if I, taking births \u2014seemingly as if it were a common event like the births of other (karma-bound) creatures[2. Cp: Galatians: 4.4:- ‘God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made under the law.’],\u2014 for the purpose of benefitting the world,\u2014 did not at any time, out of indifference (say), not act; if I, having been born in the pedigree of the famous man-chief Vasudeva[3. Vide, Geneal: Table at end of Lecture 1.] (My father), did not conduct Myself<\/em> in all seriousness, in the ways and manners adapted to his race (etc.,), why, all mankind would begin to act likewise, carried away with the notion that My ways are the ways of virtue, the worthy ways of the worthy son of the worthy Vasudeva[4. Vide, Geneal: Table at end of Lecture 1.]!. They would thus be put on the way to Infernum by the mere omission on My<\/em> part to do a duty, which amounts to the commission of the gravest wrong. Mankind would be put out of the way of realizing \u0101tm\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n If I did not Myself observe the customs of the country, mankind would take that<\/em> as the final verdict as to what is right. They would desist from all (right) effort, and be lost.<\/span><\/p>\n If, again, I failed to respect the behests of \u015a\u0101stra, by practising them Myself<\/em> I would be the author of causing a mixture or turbidity in the races of pure and holy people[5. About caste, read Lecture I, verses 39<\/a> to 44<\/a>]. I would thus be the cause of such men\u2019s ruination.<\/span><\/p>\n If you also, Arjuna! you the son of P\u0101n\u1e0du[6. Vide, Geneal: Table at end of Lecture 1.], you the brother of Yudhis\u1e6dhira[7. Vide, Geneal: Table at end of Lecture 1.], should betake<\/a> yourself away to J\u00f1\u0101na-Yoga<\/em> (to which class you belong), all the worthy rest of men, moksha-aspirants, would likewise follow your example, not knowing that their own stage is not of that advanced kind as yours is.<\/span><\/p>\n Thus, failing to walk in the Path of Works, mankind must meet ruin.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, even for the specially distinguished men (who do not need any action) there is this reason requiring them to act.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 3 verse 25<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 3 << Chapter 3 verse 23 SlOkam \u2013 Original uthsIdhEyur imE lokA na kuryAm karma chEdh aham | sankarasya cha karthA syAm upahanyAm imA: prajA: || word-by-word meaning aham – I karma – actions (pertaining to the heritage of the family I am born … 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-1787","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\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n sankarasya cha karthA syAm upahanyAm imA: prajA: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nkarma – actions (pertaining to the heritage of the family I am born in)
\nna kuryAm chEth – did not perform
\nimE lOkA: – the residents of this world (who follow my discipline)
\nuthsIdhEyu: – will be ruined;
\nsankarasya – mixture (in the families of dedicated followers)
\nkarthA cha syAm – [I] would be the\u00a0 one who caused;<\/p>\n
\nimA: prajA: – these people
\nupahanyAm – will be the cause for their downfall (in the future too)<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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