{"id":2525,"date":"2016-11-25T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2016-11-25T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T21:08:50","slug":"6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"6.3 ArurukshOr munEr yogam"},"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\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-2\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 2<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-3-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>ArurukshOr munEr yogam karma kAraNam uchyathE |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yOgArUdasya thasyaiva Sama: kAraNam uchyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>yOgam &#8211; Athma sAkshAthkAram (Vision of AthmA)<br \/>\nArurukshO: &#8211; one who desires to attain<br \/>\nmunE &#8211;\u00a0 for the mumukshu who engages in meditation of AthmA<br \/>\nkarma &#8211; karma yOga<br \/>\nkAraNam uchyathE &#8211; explained as the means (to attain such goal).<br \/>\nyOga ArUdasya thasya Eva &#8211; For him who is established\u00a0[having achieved the goal] in such vision<br \/>\nSama: &#8211; not being engaged in karma yOga<br \/>\nkAraNam &#8211; as the reason<br \/>\nuchyathE &#8211; explained.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>For a who mumukshu who engages in meditation of AthmA desiring to attain Athma sAkshAthkAram (Vision of AthmA), karma yOga is explained as the means (to attain such goal). For him who is established [having achieved the goal] in such vision, [such attainment itself] is explained as the reason for not being engaged in karma yOga [subsequently].<\/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;For the yoga-ascending[1. <em>\u0100rurukshu<\/em>, lit: yoga-scaling, the neophyte, or the novice.] muni, Work is declared as the Means. But for him, \u2014the yoga-ascended[2. Yog\u0101r\u016bdha, lit: yoga-scaled, yoga-risen, the adept.]\u2014, Peace is declared as the Means.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karma-yoga is prescribed as Means for the yoga-ascending (<em>\u0101rurukshu\u1e25<\/em>[3. <em>\u0100rurukshu<\/em>, lit: yoga-scaling, the neophyte, or the novice.]) or him who is striving to achieve \u0101tma-vision. But for the same person, when yoga-ascended (<em>\u0101r\u016bdha\u1e25<\/em>)[4. Yog\u0101r\u016bdha, lit: yoga-scaled, yoga-risen, the adept.] or when securely established in yoga (meditation), Peace or surceasal from work is prescribed. Hence, the conclusion is that Work (karma) is incumbent, till moksha or \u0101tma-seeing moksha is effected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When is one supposed to be well established in yoga (<em>i.e.<\/em>, meditation that leads to \u0101tma-consciousness)?. (It is said):\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-4\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 4<\/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 6 &lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 2 SlOkam \u2013 Original ArurukshOr munEr yogam karma kAraNam uchyathE | yOgArUdasya thasyaiva Sama: kAraNam uchyathE || word-by-word meaning yOgam &#8211; Athma sAkshAthkAram (Vision of AthmA) ArurukshO: &#8211; one who desires to attain munE &#8211;\u00a0 for the mumukshu who &#8230; <a title=\"6.3 ArurukshOr munEr yogam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-3\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.3 ArurukshOr munEr yogam\">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":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-6","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}