SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 4<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 4 verse 6<\/a><\/p>\n yadhA yadhA hi dharmasya glAnir bhavathi bhAratha |<\/em> bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha clan! Oh descendant of bharatha clan! Whenever dharma declines and adharma is on the rise, at those times I create myself [manifest myself in various incarnations].<\/p>\n ‘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.’<\/span><\/p>\n No fixed periods are appointed for My Avat\u0101ras. Whensoever dharma<\/em> (righteousness etc.,) as is ordained to be practised by the four var\u1e47as<\/em>[3. The four var\u1e47as<\/em> are Br\u0101hma\u1e47a, Kshatriya, Vai\u015bya and \u015a\u016bdra.] and the four \u0101\u015bram\u0101s<\/em>[4. The four 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 adharma<\/em> increases, then do I manifest Myself in Incarnations, of My own free will, in the manner explained already (verse 7, ante<\/em><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n The purpose of the Avat\u0101ras is now stated:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 4 verse 8<\/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 4 << Chapter 4 verse 6 SlOkam \u2013 Original yadhA yadhA hi dharmasya glAnir bhavathi bhAratha | abhyuththAnam adharmasya thadhAthmAnam srujAmyaham || word-by-word meaning bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha clan! yadhA yadhA hi – whenever dharmasya – for dharma (virtue) glAni: bhavathi – … 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":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-4","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","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=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n abhyuththAnam adharmasya thadhAthmAnam srujAmyaham ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nyadhA yadhA hi – whenever
\ndharmasya – for dharma (virtue)
\nglAni: bhavathi – decline occurs
\nadharmasya – for adharma (vice)
\nabhyuththAnam (bhavathi) – is on the rise
\nthadha – at those times
\naham – I
\nAthmAnam – myself
\nsrujAmi – create<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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