{"id":2645,"date":"2016-11-30T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2016-11-30T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:21:45","slug":"6-14-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-14-original\/","title":{"rendered":"6.14 pra\u015b\u0101nt\u0101tm\u0101 vigata-bh\u012br (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\/6-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-13-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">pra\u015b\u0101nt\u0101tm\u0101 vigata-bh\u012br<br \/>\nbrahmac\u0101ri-vrate sthita\u1e25<br \/>\nmana\u1e25 sa\u1e41yamya mac-citto<br \/>\nyukta \u0101s\u012bta mat-para\u1e25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;With mind in perfect tranquillity, fearless, keeping the vow of <em>brahmacharya<\/em>[4. Sv\u0101mi Vivek\u0101nanda says in his R\u0101ja Yoga (pp: 61-62), that \u2018that part of the human energy which is expressed as sex energy, in sexual functions, sexual thought and so on, when checked and controlled, easily, becomes changed into &#8216;Ojas&#8217;. * * * * * If people practise R\u0101ja-Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become<br \/>\nYogis? Read also P\u0101tanjala Yoga-s\u016btras, II-30, II-38.], restraining the mind and making the thoughts to dwell on Me, let one, collected, sit meditating on Me.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Body, head and neck straight\u2019 means: an erect (and balanced) posture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Unmoving and firm (<em>st\u1e25ira<\/em>)\u2019: <em>i.e.<\/em>, resting the balanced head and body against a cushion or some comfortable (bolster-)support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eyes not allowed to wander in different directions in space, but held fixed so as to gaze (between the eye-brows) at the tip of the nose[3. See verses <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-29-original\/\">29<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/5-30-original\/\">30<\/a>, <em>ante<\/em>, The amplification of this subject is <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-original\/\">Lecture VI<\/a>. The tip of the nose is the directrix to bring the gaze to the middle of the eye-brows.]. (So far, body-discipline).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Now comes, mind-discipline):\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Mind tranquil\u2019 connotes the state of mind in high contentedness! Added to this is \u2018freedom from all fear.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, again, what is required is leading the mode of life called \u2018<em>Brahmacharya<\/em>[6. Sv\u0101mi Vivek\u0101nanda says in his R\u0101ja Yoga (pp: 61-62), that \u2018that part of the human energy which is expressed as sex energy, in sexual functions, sexual thought and so on, when checked and controlled, easily, becomes changed into &#8216;Ojas&#8217;. * * * * * If people practise R\u0101ja-Yoga and at the same time lead an impure life, how can they expect to become<br \/>\nYogis? Read also P\u0101tanjala Yoga-s\u016btras, II-30, II-38.]\u2019, i.e., continence or reservation of the vital energy[7. <em>Mund: Up:<\/em> III.-2-4 says:\u2018This \u0101tma is never attained by the weak\u2019. The definition of Brahmacharya is given thus:\u2014\u2018Yoshit-smara\u1e47a,-k\u012brtana, ke\u1e37i, preksha\u1e47a,-guhya-bhasha\u1e47a,-sankalp-, \u0101dhyavas\u0101ya;-kriy\u0101,-niv\u1e5bitti-laksha\u1e47\u0101\u2019. In <em>re<\/em> Brahmacharya, also see <em>Mund: Up:<\/em> III-1-5, <em>Pra\u015b: Up:<\/em> I-2&gt;. See <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-11-original\/\">Bh: G\u012b: VIII-11<\/a>.], to which one should be faithful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping the mind thus closely attentive (or harmonized), let one turn the mind on Me, and sit fixing it there in meditation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-15-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 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.org<\/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 13 Simple pra\u015b\u0101nt\u0101tm\u0101 vigata-bh\u012br brahmac\u0101ri-vrate sthita\u1e25 mana\u1e25 sa\u1e41yamya mac-citto yukta \u0101s\u012bta mat-para\u1e25 &#8216;With mind in perfect tranquillity, fearless, keeping the vow of brahmacharya[4. Sv\u0101mi Vivek\u0101nanda says in his R\u0101ja Yoga (pp: 61-62), that \u2018that part of the human energy &#8230; <a title=\"6.14 pra\u015b\u0101nt\u0101tm\u0101 vigata-bh\u012br (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-14-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.14 pra\u015b\u0101nt\u0101tm\u0101 vigata-bh\u012br (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":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-6","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","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=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}