{"id":2037,"date":"2016-10-18T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2016-10-18T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:59:18","slug":"4-11-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-11-original\/","title":{"rendered":"4.11 ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante (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\/4-10-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 4 verse 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante<br \/>\nt\u0101\u1e41s tathaiva bhaj\u0101my aham<br \/>\nmama vartm\u0101nuvartante<br \/>\nmanu\u1e63y\u0101\u1e25 p\u0101rtha sarva\u015ba\u1e25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;In the way they resort to Me (<em>prapadyante<\/em>[3. This word has a special sense indicating the method of &#8216;<em>Prapatti<\/em>&#8216;.]) in that way do I serve to them. All men (of My ways) P\u0101rtha[4. Epithet of Arjuna, being a descendant of P\u1e5bithu-Chakravarti.]! go after Me in every way.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only, by the method of Incarnations, in the forms of <em>devas<\/em>, men etc., I am saviour to those who seek Me as their Refuge, but <em>any other method or form<\/em>[5. This verse is a wonderful proof of the catholicity of the religion of Gita. It affords freedom of worship to all in any manner. As such, the verse is an authority for image-worship (Read, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-21-original\/\">Bh: GI: VII-21<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-23-original\/\">IX-23<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-25-original\/\">25<\/a>., also <em>Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, XI-3-52.] which it may be their pleasing option to select[6. Vide: <em>\u015ari Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, III-24-30: T\u0101ny eva te bhir\u016bp\u0101\u1e47i etc.]. Whatever that is, to that I adapt Myself. <em>By whatever conception<\/em>[7. This verse is a wonderful proof of the catholicity of the religion of Gita. It affords freedom of worship to all in any manner. As such, the verse is an authority for image-worship (Read, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-21-original\/\">Bh: GI: VII-21<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-23-original\/\">IX-23<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-25-original\/\">25<\/a>., also <em>Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, XI-3-52.] they choose to seek Me, I <em>manifest Myself to them in that mode<\/em>[8. This verse is a wonderful proof of the catholicity of the religion of Gita. It affords freedom of worship to all in any manner. As such, the verse is an authority for image-worship (Read, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-21-original\/\">Bh: GI: VII-21<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-23-original\/\">IX-23<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-25-original\/\">25<\/a>., also <em>Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, XI-3-52.].<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Bhaj\u0101mi<\/em> is literally \u2018I serve (in love).\u2019 Here it means, \u2018I appear to them\u2019 (<em>dar\u015bay\u0101mi<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, albeit My nature is such as even Yogis (exclusively God-devoted men) find it to be transcending thought and speech, yet to all who are of My ways, I suit Myself in a manner that I am, to them, not only a Visible Demonstration, but they may enjoy Me by every one of their sense-faculties, and in all diverse ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing now to a close, the digressive topic (of Avat\u0101ras), the subject of <em>karma-yoga<\/em> is resumed. Before presenting the <em>j\u00f1\u0101na<\/em>-aspect of <em>karma-yoga<\/em>, it is first shown how rare are the persons who practise that kind of <em>karma-yoga<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-12-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 4 verse 12<\/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 10 Simple ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante t\u0101\u1e41s tathaiva bhaj\u0101my aham mama vartm\u0101nuvartante manu\u1e63y\u0101\u1e25 p\u0101rtha sarva\u015ba\u1e25 &#8216;In the way they resort to Me (prapadyante[3. This word has a special sense indicating the method of &#8216;Prapatti&#8216;.]) in that way do I &#8230; <a title=\"4.11 ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-11-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4.11 ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante (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-2037","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\/2037","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=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}