{"id":1818,"date":"2016-09-25T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2016-09-25T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:20:00","slug":"3-28-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-28-original\/","title":{"rendered":"3.28 tattva-vit tu mah\u0101-b\u0101ho (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\/3-27-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 27<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">tattva-vit tu mah\u0101-b\u0101ho<br \/>\ngu\u1e47a-karma-vibh\u0101gayo\u1e25<br \/>\ngu\u1e47\u0101 gu\u1e47e\u1e63u vartanta<br \/>\niti matv\u0101 na sajjate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Whereas the truth-knower, O mighty-armed! of the nature and work of the gu\u1e47as[1. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], knowing that gu\u1e47as[2. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.] rest in gu\u1e47as[3. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], giveth up attachment.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In respect to the activities which are displayed by the three-fold nature of matter, <em>satva<\/em>, <em>rajas<\/em> and <em>tamas<\/em>[4. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], the man who is blinded by <em>aha\u1e47k\u0101ra<\/em>[5. Means pride, or intumescence of selfness, egoism or egotism. Aha\u1e47k\u0101ra, here means the deluded notion that what is not-self (body) is self (<em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>).] \u2014fancies that he is the doer or author, (the agent, the cause, the root, the spring, or the fountain of the activities).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Aha\u1e47k\u0101ra<\/em>[6. Means pride, or intumescence of selfness, egoism or egotism. Aha\u1e47k\u0101ra, here means the deluded notion that what is not-self (body) is self (<em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>).]=I-ness = the notion of egoism one feels for his body, or the mistaken notion that the non-self, \u2014body\u2014, is the self, <em>\u0101tm\u0101<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A man therefore who is under this wrong notion mistakes the doings of the body or the <em>gu\u1e47as<\/em>[7. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], as <em>\u0101tm\u0101\u2019s<\/em> doings. He thinks, \u2018I am the doer.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Tatva-vit<\/em> or truth-knower: is he who is capable of discerning in work the properties of the <em>gu\u1e47as<\/em>[8. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.] manifesting themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoso therefore discovers in the manifestations of the gu\u1e47as[9. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], the gu\u1e47as[10. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-14\">Lect: XIV<\/a> for an exhaustive treatment of the <em>gun\u0101s<\/em>. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. <em>Satva<\/em> is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., <em>Rajas<\/em> is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and <em>Tamas<\/em> is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.] themselves, will not commit the error of thinking, \u2018I am the doer.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-29-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 3 verse 29<\/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 27 Simple tattva-vit tu mah\u0101-b\u0101ho gu\u1e47a-karma-vibh\u0101gayo\u1e25 gu\u1e47\u0101 gu\u1e47e\u1e63u vartanta iti matv\u0101 na sajjate &#8216;Whereas the truth-knower, O mighty-armed! of the nature and work of the gu\u1e47as[1. See Lect: XIV for an exhaustive treatment of the gun\u0101s. 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