{"id":2440,"date":"2016-11-20T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2016-11-20T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:29:33","slug":"5-20-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-20-original\/","title":{"rendered":"5.20 na prah\u1e5b\u1e63yet priya\u1e41 pr\u0101pya (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\/5-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-19-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 5 verse 19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">na prah\u1e5b\u1e63yet priya\u1e41 pr\u0101pya<br \/>\nnodvijet pr\u0101pya c\u0101priyam<br \/>\nsthira-buddhir asamm\u016b\u1e0dho<br \/>\nbrahma-vid brahma\u1e47i sthita\u1e25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;He shall not exult, attaining the \u2018agreeable,\u2019 nor grieve, encountering the \u2018disagreeable\u2019. The steady-willed, undeluded, <em>brahma<\/em>-knower, remains in <em>brahma<\/em> itself.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Agreeable\u2019 and \u2018disagreeable\u2019 things happen according to the body in which one may dwell, and according to the past karma-instincts. (These are accidents of embodied existence).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He who would scale the heights of wisdom, shall not evince joy or sorrow, when the \u2018agreeables (<em>priyam<\/em>) or the \u2018disagreeables\u2019 (<em>apriyam<\/em>) may happen, (respectively).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is this possible? It is, if he is: <em>sthira-buddhi\u1e25<\/em>= steady-willed, or he who plants his will in the stable (<em>sthira<\/em>) \u0101tma. If he is: <em>a-samm\u016bdhah<\/em>. I.e, <em>moha<\/em> is the delusion or the confounding the stable \u0101tma with the unstable body. <em>Asamm\u016bdha\u1e25<\/em> is he who is free from such delusion. How is he to be this? If he is <em>brahma<\/em>-learned (<em>brahma-vit<\/em>) and <em>brahma<\/em>-stationed (<em>brahma\u1e47i sthita\u1e25<\/em>). That is, by learning or knowing what brahma (\u0101tma) is, from instruction, and to remain steadily practising in <em>brahma<\/em> (i.e., constant spiritual culture).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tenor of the verse is this:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From instruction received from truth-seers (<em>i.e.<\/em>, spiritual preceptors), one shall learn the exact nature of \u0101tma (<em>brahma-vit<\/em>). He shall then practise the same. He shall then abjure the \u0101tma-love which he places in the body, and employ himself in blissful contemplation of the would-be eternal \u0101tma-intercourse. And then he shall neither rejoice over \u2018agreeables\u2019 nor tremble against \u2018disagreeables\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-21-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 5 verse 21<\/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 5 &lt;&lt; Chapter 5 verse 19 Simple na prah\u1e5b\u1e63yet priya\u1e41 pr\u0101pya nodvijet pr\u0101pya c\u0101priyam sthira-buddhir asamm\u016b\u1e0dho brahma-vid brahma\u1e47i sthita\u1e25 &#8216;He shall not exult, attaining the \u2018agreeable,\u2019 nor grieve, encountering the \u2018disagreeable\u2019. The steady-willed, undeluded, brahma-knower, remains in brahma itself.&#8217; \u2018Agreeable\u2019 and \u2018disagreeable\u2019 things happen &#8230; <a title=\"5.20 na prah\u1e5b\u1e63yet priya\u1e41 pr\u0101pya (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-20-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 5.20 na prah\u1e5b\u1e63yet priya\u1e41 pr\u0101pya (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":[15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-5","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}