SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 5<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 5 verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n bAhyasparSEshvasakthAthmA vindhathyAthmani yath sukham |<\/em> ya: – that karma yOgi That karma yOgi who is unattached to external sensual pleasures and who feels delight in AthmA (who is in-dwelling), he being focussed on meditating upon AthmA only, attains eternal bliss (of self-enjoyment).<\/p>\n ‘With mind unattached to external contacts (sense-delights), whoso feels delight in \u0101tma (itself), joins himself in mind, to brahma-yoga<\/em>, and tastes eternal bliss.’<\/span><\/p>\n Thus, in the way described, whoso desists from clinging to pleasures from objects other than \u0101tma, and begins to derive pleasure from the internal \u0101tma, alone gives up his pursuit after physical delights, and unites his mind to brahmayoga<\/em>, (brahm-\u0101bhy\u0101sa<\/em>=repeated contemplation of \u0101tma). And he obtains the imperishable bliss of brahma<\/em>-enjoyment.<\/span><\/p>\n That material (or sense-) joy is easily ab\u0101ndonable, is now shown:<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 5 verse 22<\/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 5 << Chapter 5 verse 20 SlOkam \u2013 Original bAhyasparSEshvasakthAthmA vindhathyAthmani yath sukham | sa brahmayOgayukthAthmA sukham akshayam aSnuthE || word-by-word meaning ya: – that karma yOgi bAhya sparSEshu – external sensual pleasures asakthAthmA – being unattached Athmani – in AthmA (who is in-dwelling) … 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":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-5","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","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=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n sa brahmayOgayukthAthmA sukham akshayam aSnuthE ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nbAhya sparSEshu – external sensual pleasures
\nasakthAthmA – being unattached
\nAthmani – in AthmA (who is in-dwelling)
\nsukham – delight
\nvindhathi – attains
\nsa: – he
\nbrahma yOga yukthAthmA – being focussed on meditating upon AthmA only
\nakshayam sukham – eternal bliss (of self-enjoyment)
\naSnuthE – attains<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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