{"id":1912,"date":"2016-10-01T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2016-10-01T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:33:52","slug":"3-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-38\/","title":{"rendered":"3.38 dhUmEnAvriyathE vahnir"},"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\/3-37\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 3 verse 37<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-38-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>dhUmEnAvriyathE vahnir yathAdarSo malEna cha |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yathOlbEnAvruthO garbhas thathA thEnEdham Avrutham ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>vahni: &#8211; fire<br \/>\nyathA dhUmEna AvriyathE &#8211; as covered by smoke<br \/>\nAdharSa: &#8211; mirror<br \/>\n(yathA) cha malEna (AvriyathE) &#8211; as covered by dust<br \/>\ngarbha: &#8211; embryo<br \/>\nyathA (cha) ulbEna &#8211; as amnion<br \/>\nAvrutha: &#8211; covered by<br \/>\nthathA &#8211; in the same way<br \/>\nthEna &#8211; by lust<br \/>\nidham &#8211; this collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/ponnadi.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i5631.html\">chEthanas (souls)<\/a><br \/>\nAvrutham &#8211; covered<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>As fire is covered by smoke, mirror is covered by dust, embryo is covered by amnion, in the same way this collection of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ponnadi.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/thathva-thrayam-chith-who-am-i5631.html\">chEthanas (souls)<\/a>\u00a0is covered by lust.<\/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;Like the fire enveloped by smoke, the mirror<br \/>\nby stain, and the embryo by the amnion, so is this (world) wrapped in it (lust).&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>This<\/em>=all creatures (the world): is immersed in desires, like smoke enveloping the fire; like the stain obscuring the brightness of a looking glass, like the foetus ensheathed in its (membraneous) cover[3. <em>Ulba<\/em>:- \u015aruti defines it as &#8220;Uttarm v\u0101 ulb\u0101j jar\u0101yu\u1e25&#8221;.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How it envelopes is explained :\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-39\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 3 verse 39<\/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 37 SlOkam \u2013 Original dhUmEnAvriyathE vahnir yathAdarSo malEna cha | yathOlbEnAvruthO garbhas thathA thEnEdham Avrutham || word-by-word meaning vahni: &#8211; fire yathA dhUmEna AvriyathE &#8211; as covered by smoke AdharSa: &#8211; mirror (yathA) cha malEna (AvriyathE) &#8211; as covered &#8230; <a title=\"3.38 dhUmEnAvriyathE vahnir\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/3-38\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 3.38 dhUmEnAvriyathE vahnir\">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-1912","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\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}