{"id":2017,"date":"2016-10-17T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2016-10-17T00:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:25:50","slug":"4-7-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-7-original\/","title":{"rendered":"4.7 yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya (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\/4-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-6-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 4 verse 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya<br \/>\ngl\u0101nir bhavati bh\u0101rata<br \/>\nabhyutth\u0101nam adharmasya<br \/>\ntad\u0101tm\u0101na\u1e41 s\u1e5bj\u0101my aham<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Whensoever and wheresoever, Bh\u0101rata[2. Descendent of Bharata=Arjuna (see Geneological Tree at end of Lecture I).]!, virtue wanes and vice waxes, then (and there) do I create Myself.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No fixed periods are appointed for My Avat\u0101ras. Whensoever <em>dharma<\/em> (righteousness etc.,) as is ordained to be practised by the four <em>var\u1e47as<\/em>[3. The four <em>var\u1e47as<\/em> are Br\u0101hma\u1e47a, Kshatriya, Vai\u015bya and \u015a\u016bdra.] and the four <em>\u0101\u015bram\u0101s<\/em>[4. The four <em>a\u015bramas<\/em> are Brahmacharya (bachelor and student), G\u0101rhastya (married life), V\u0101naprastha (retired forest life) and Sany\u0101sa (monastic or ascetic life).] decline, and wheresoever its opposite <em>adharma<\/em> increases, then do I manifest Myself in Incarnations, of My own free will, in the manner explained already (<a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-7-original\/\">verse 7, <em>ante<\/em><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the Avat\u0101ras is now stated:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-8-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 4 verse 8<\/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 4 &lt;&lt; Chapter 4 verse 6 Simple yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya gl\u0101nir bhavati bh\u0101rata abhyutth\u0101nam adharmasya tad\u0101tm\u0101na\u1e41 s\u1e5bj\u0101my aham &#8216;Whensoever and wheresoever, Bh\u0101rata[2. Descendent of Bharata=Arjuna (see Geneological Tree at end of Lecture I).]!, virtue wanes and vice waxes, then (and there) do I &#8230; <a title=\"4.7 yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-7-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4.7 yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya (Original)\">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":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-4","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","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=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}