SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 3<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 3 verse 42<\/a><\/p>\n Evam budhdhE: param budhdhvA samsthabhyAthmAnam AthmanA | <\/em> mahAbhAhO – Oh mighty armed! Oh mighty armed! In this manner knowing about the lust which is more powerful than firm conviction (in blocking knowledge about self), ordering your mind through firm knowledge, destroy the invincible enemy named lust.<\/p>\n ‘O strong-armed! thus knowing this (lust=k\u0101ma<\/em>) which surpasses buddhi<\/em>, and steadying the manas<\/em> with (your) buddhi<\/em>[2. Steadying the manas<\/em> with buddhi<\/em>, is equivalent to: ‘Steadying your vacillating mind by your firm will’. In popular expositions, the strict philosophical meanings of terms must be partly forgotten.], destroy the irrepressible lust-shaped foe.[3. \u2018Kill then, O Great-armed Chief! that hardly conquered foe, The love of what is unrighteous and sole root of woe.\u2019 \u015ari Yogi S. P\u0101rthas\u0101rathi Aiyang\u0101r.]’<\/span><\/p>\n Thus knowing that desire is even prior to buddhi<\/em>, know it to be the antagonist to j\u00f1\u0101na-yoga<\/em>. Do will, or firmly resolve, then, to keep your mind firmly established in \u0101tm\u0101; and destroy this, your inveterate foe in the guise of lust.<\/span><\/p>\n OM TAT SAT<\/span><\/p>\n Thus closes Lecture Three, named Karma-Yoga<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n or the Path of Works,<\/span><\/p>\n with \u015ari R\u0101m\u0101nuja\u2019s<\/em> commentary thereon,<\/span><\/p>\n in the colloquy between \u015ari K\u1e5bish\u1e47a<\/em> and Arjuna<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n In the Science of Yoga,<\/span><\/p>\n in the Divine knowledge of the Upanishads<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n or the Chants of Bhagav\u0101n<\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n the Bhagavad G\u012bt\u0101<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 4<\/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 42 SlOkam \u2013 Original Evam budhdhE: param budhdhvA samsthabhyAthmAnam AthmanA | jahi Sathrum mahAbhAhO kAmarUpa\u1e41 dhurAsadham || word-by-word meaning mahAbhAhO – Oh mighty armed! Evam – in this manner budhdhE: param – lust which is more powerful than firm … 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-1970","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\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n jahi Sathrum mahAbhAhO kAmarUpa\u1e41 dhurAsadham ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nEvam – in this manner
\nbudhdhE: param – lust which is more powerful than firm conviction (in blocking knowledge about self)
\nbudhdhvA – knowing
\nAthmAnam – mind
\nAthmanA – through firm knowledge
\nsamsthabhya – ordering it (to engage in karma yOga)
\ndhurAsadham – invincible
\nkAma rUpam Sathrum – enemy named lust
\njahi – destroy it<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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