{"id":1850,"date":"2016-09-27T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2016-09-27T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:56:15","slug":"3-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-31\/","title":{"rendered":"3.31 yE mE matham idham nithyam"},"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\/3-30\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 30<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-31-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>yE mE matham idham nithyam anuthishtanthi mAnavA: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em>SraddhAvanthO\u2019nasUyanthO muchyanthE thE\u2019pi karmabhi: ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>yE mAnavA: &#8211; those qualified persons<br \/>\nidham &#8211; this<br \/>\nmE matham &#8211;\u00a0 my philosophy<br \/>\nnithyam anuthishtanthi &#8211; always practicing<br \/>\nyE SradhdhAvantha: &#8211; (even if they are not practicing) at least they are being faithful<br \/>\nyE anasUyantha: &#8211; (even if they are not faithful) at least they are not jealous<br \/>\nthE api &#8211; those three types of people<br \/>\nkarmabhi: muchyanthE &#8211; are freed from all puNya (virtuous) and pApa (sinful) karmas<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Those qualified persons who are always practicing\u00a0my philosophy, those who are (even if they are not practicing) at least being faithful and those who are (even if they are not faithful) at least not jealous, those three types of people are freed from all puNya (virtuous) and pApa (sinful) karmas.<\/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, men, will follow this eternal behest of Mine, filled with faith or (at least) void of ill-will, shall be released from all deeds.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>M\u0101navas<\/em>=men, the descendants of Manu[1. Belonging to the Solar Dynasty.], and therefore the followers of \u015a\u0101stras. They determine to themselves what the main import of the \u015a\u0101stras is, \u2014which(\u015a\u0101stras) are no other than My Will formulated\u2014 and conduct themselves in accordance therewith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are those, who, if they cannot bring the \u015a\u0101stra-canons into practice personally, may yet be faithful believers in the tenets inculcated therein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There may again be those, who though not earnest and believing, may not yet range themselves with blasphemers, and doubt the truthfulness, authority (and so on) of the \u015a\u0101stra-injunctions ; in other words, who will not try to detect errors in \u015a\u0101stras, laying claim, as they may, to perfection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these three classes of men shall be delivered from the effects of their vast accumulation of past fructescent deeds, causing their bondage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><em>Te &#8216;pi<\/em><\/em>= they <em>also<\/em>, or <em>at least<\/em> they: referring to the unvilifying class, is to impressively show that even if they be not men of earnestness, but if only they keep a passive attitude, they are entitled to salvation (gradually.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This verse thus declares that even those who are unable to exemplify the \u015a\u0101stra-teaching by actual conduct, but if they are earnest in believing its precepts; and that even those who may not be earnest, but if they at least do not blaspheme, are entitled to absolution from past deeds, the cause of bondage. The (positive) attitude of faith or at least the (negative) attitude of absence of ill-will gradually leads them on to actual conduct as enjoined by \u015a\u0101stra, and then on to liberation (<em>moksha<\/em>) finally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evil to the non-observers of Aupanishad-commandments, the non-earnest, and the blasphemers, is stated thus:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-32\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 3 verse 32<\/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 30 SlOkam \u2013 Original yE mE matham idham nithyam anuthishtanthi mAnavA: | SraddhAvanthO\u2019nasUyanthO muchyanthE thE\u2019pi karmabhi: || word-by-word meaning yE mAnavA: &#8211; those qualified persons idham &#8211; this mE matham &#8211;\u00a0 my philosophy nithyam anuthishtanthi &#8211; always practicing yE &#8230; <a title=\"3.31 yE mE matham idham nithyam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-31\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 3.31 yE mE matham idham nithyam\">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-1850","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\/1850","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=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}