{"id":2071,"date":"2016-10-21T20:42:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2016-10-21T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:42:04","slug":"4-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-14\/","title":{"rendered":"4.14 ithi mAm yO \u2019bhijAnAthi"},"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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-13-5\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 4 verse 13.5<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-14-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>ithi mAm yO\u2019bhijAnAthi karmabhir na sa badhyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>ithi &#8211; in this manner<br \/>\nmAm &#8211; me<br \/>\nya: &#8211; whosoever<br \/>\nabhijAnAthi &#8211; knows well<br \/>\nsa: &#8211; he<br \/>\nkarmabhi: &#8211; sins (which are hurdles for the commencement of karma yOga)<br \/>\nna badhyathE &#8211; is not bound (it is implied that he will be relieved of such sins)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Whosoever knows me well in this manner, he is not bound by the sins (which are hurdles for the commencement of karma yOga)\u00a0 (it is implied that he will be relieved of such sins).<\/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;Whoso, full well, knows Me thus, will not<br \/>\nbe bound by works (<em>karmas<\/em>)&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Thus<\/em>, i. e., (1) Me, as <em>Author<\/em>, and yet <em>No-author<\/em> in the way explained above; and (2) Me, the <em>Non-concerned<\/em> in the fruits of karma (works) (<a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-13-5-original\/\">iv-13.5<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoso understands Me, <em>thus<\/em>, will not entangle himself in the past <em>karmas<\/em>, which forge connections with fruits thereof. (i.e. By knowledge, one renders the karma-power nugatory in producing effects). The past <em>karmas<\/em> are those that form the bar to the entrance of the postulant into (the portal of the kind of) <em>Karma-Yoga<\/em> (described here).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He will not be bound<\/em>, means: he will be delivered from them (the bonds of <em>karma<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-15\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 4 verse 15<\/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 4 &lt;&lt; Chapter 4 verse 13.5 SlOkam \u2013 Original ithi mAm yO\u2019bhijAnAthi karmabhir na sa badhyathE || word-by-word meaning ithi &#8211; in this manner mAm &#8211; me ya: &#8211; whosoever abhijAnAthi &#8211; knows well sa: &#8211; he karmabhi: &#8211; sins (which are hurdles for &#8230; <a title=\"4.14 ithi mAm yO \u2019bhijAnAthi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/4-14\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4.14 ithi mAm yO \u2019bhijAnAthi\">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-2071","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\/2071","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=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}