{"id":2574,"date":"2016-11-28T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2016-11-28T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:49:16","slug":"6-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-9\/","title":{"rendered":"6.9 suhrunmithrAryudhAsIna"},"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\/6-8\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 8<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-9-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>suhrunmithrAryudhAsInamadhyasthadhvEshyabandhushu |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> sAdhushvapi cha pApEshu samabudhdhir viSishyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>suhrun mithra ari udhAsIna madhyastha dhvEshya bandhushu &#8211; towards well wishers, friends, enemies, unrelated ones, neutral persons, those who have natural hatred, those who have natural affection<br \/>\nsAdhushu api &#8211; towards good people<br \/>\npApEshu cha &#8211; towards sinners<br \/>\nsama budhdhi: &#8211; one who is equally disposed<br \/>\nviSishyathE &#8211; best (among those who practice yOga)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>One who is equally disposed towards well wishers, friends, enemies, unrelated ones, neutral persons, those who have natural hatred, those who have natural affection, good people and sinners, is the best (among those who practice yOga).<\/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;He is specially distinguished, who looks with equal eye on friends or comrades, foes or strangers, neutrals, born-enemies or kinsmen, on the virtuous or the vile[1. <em>Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, IV-20-13; \u2018Samas sam\u0101nottama-madhyam\u0101dhama\u1e25.\u2019].&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Suh\u1e5bit<\/em>=friend, or he who, taking no account of the differences in age, wishes one well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Mitra<\/em>=comrade or compeer, is one who is of equal age, who wishes one well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ari<\/em>=foe, is one who for a given cause, wishes one ill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ud\u0101s\u012bna<\/em>=stranger, is one who has no cause to be either a friend or a foe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Madhyastha<\/em>=neutral, is one who from birth is neither a friend nor a foe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Dveshya<\/em>=a born-enemy, or one who bears ill-will from birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Bandhu<\/em>=kinsman, or one who bears good-will from birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>S\u0101dhu<\/em>= the virtuous man, or he who always walks in the path of rectitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>P\u0101pa(\u1e25)<\/em>=the vile or the wicked man who walks the path of iniquity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <em>Yukta\u1e25<\/em> is the man, who has ceased from all relationship with the world, <em>i.e.<\/em>, who has to gain nothing from friends, foes, etc., and therefore he has an equal eye on all. In his case, all opposition or inimicality is absent. Such a person is competent to engage in meditative practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-10\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 10<\/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 8 SlOkam \u2013 Original suhrunmithrAryudhAsInamadhyasthadhvEshyabandhushu | sAdhushvapi cha pApEshu samabudhdhir viSishyathE || word-by-word meaning suhrun mithra ari udhAsIna madhyastha dhvEshya bandhushu &#8211; towards well wishers, friends, enemies, unrelated ones, neutral persons, those who have natural hatred, those who have &#8230; <a title=\"6.9 suhrunmithrAryudhAsIna\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-9\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.9 suhrunmithrAryudhAsIna\">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-2574","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\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}