{"id":2651,"date":"2016-11-30T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2016-11-30T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:41:18","slug":"6-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-15\/","title":{"rendered":"6.15 yunjan Evam sadhAthmAnam"},"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\/6-14\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 14<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-15-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>yunjan Evam sadhAthmAnam yOgI niyathamAnasa: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> SAnthim nirvANaparamAm mathsamsthAm adhigachchathi ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>yOgI &#8211; yOga practitioner<br \/>\nEvam &#8211; in this manner<br \/>\nAthmAnam &#8211; mind<br \/>\nsadhA &#8211; always<br \/>\nyunjan &#8211; focussing (on me)<br \/>\nniyathamAnasa: &#8211; (as a result) having disciplined mind<br \/>\nmath samsthAm &#8211; being in me<br \/>\nnirvANa paramAm &#8211; the ultimate state of being freed from material body<br \/>\nSAnthim &#8211; peace<br \/>\nadhigachchathi &#8211; attains<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Thus, the yOga practitioner, in this manner, focussing the mind always (on me) and (as a result) having a disciplined mind, attains the peace of ultimate state of being freed from material body and being in me.<\/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;Thus the yogi, ever uniting his mind in Me, becomes mind-disciplined, and reaches the supreme Peace of Bliss abiding in Me.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Uniting the mind in Me,\u2019 means to constantly fix the thoughts on Me, Para-brahma[3. The Great, <em>par excellence<\/em>, the 669th name of God.], Purushottama[4. &#8216;The Super-excellent Person&#8217;, the 24th name of God, (vide also, P\u0101ta\u00f1jala Yoga-S\u016btra I.24, (which says <em>purusha-vi\u015bes\u1e25<\/em>) &#8211; Purusha is the common term to denote a <em>thinking<\/em> substance from an <em>unthinking<\/em> substance. <em>Utpurusha<\/em>=bound soul; <em>uttara-purusha<\/em>=liberated soul, <em>uttama-purusha<\/em>=the ever-free soul; <em>Purushottama<\/em>=Soul Supreme=God.], the Holiest Subject for mind to muse on. <em>Mind-disciplined<\/em> or disciplined of mind, means: mind made steady or firm by the purification it undergoes by being brought in contact with Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such a person attains that Peace which has Nirv\u0101\u1e47a or Moksha for its ultimate goal, \u2014that Peace which is to be found in Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, after declaring how one who would commence meditation (yoga) should fix the mind on Bhagav\u0101n, \u2014the Holy Subject to concentrate thoughts on, \u2014in order to effect its (mind\u2019s) purification, other helps to meditation are now stated :\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-16\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 16<\/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 14 SlOkam \u2013 Original yunjan Evam sadhAthmAnam yOgI niyathamAnasa: | SAnthim nirvANaparamAm mathsamsthAm adhigachchathi || word-by-word meaning yOgI &#8211; yOga practitioner Evam &#8211; in this manner AthmAnam &#8211; mind sadhA &#8211; always yunjan &#8211; focussing (on me) niyathamAnasa: &#8211; &#8230; <a title=\"6.15 yunjan Evam sadhAthmAnam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-15\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.15 yunjan Evam sadhAthmAnam\">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-2651","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\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}