{"id":2696,"date":"2016-12-01T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2016-12-01T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:46:59","slug":"6-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-17\/","title":{"rendered":"6.17 yukthAhAravihArasya"},"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\/6-16\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 16<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-17-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>yukthAhAravihArasya yukthachEstasya karmasu |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yukthasvapnAvabOdhasya yOgO bhavathi dhu:khahA ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>yukthAhAra vihArasya &#8211; consuming adequate quantity of food and having adequate physical movements<br \/>\nkarmasu &#8211; in his activities<br \/>\nyuktha chEshtasya &#8211; having adequate engagements<br \/>\nyuktha svapna avabOdhasya &#8211; having adequate sleep and awakening<br \/>\ndhu:kha hA &#8211; all his woes will be eliminated<br \/>\nyOga: &#8211; practice of yOga<br \/>\nbhavathi &#8211; occurs in him<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>For the one who is consuming adequate quantity of food and having adequate physical movements, having adequate engagements in his activities, having adequate sleep and awakening, all his woes will be eliminated and the practice of yOga occurs in him.<\/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;Meditation becomes the woe-destroyer to him who is careful in food and careful in exercise; who carefully employs himself in works, and who regulates sleep and waking.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over-eating or never eating are both prejudicial to meditation (Yoga). So are excessive activity and complete inactivity. So are inordinate sleeping and over-vigilance. So are over-work (to exhaustion) and so idleness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To him, who is discreet in food and exercise, who does not fatigue himself (in life\u2019s multifarious avocations), and who is regular in sleep and waking, meditation becomes the exterminator of all afflictions, <em>i.e.<\/em>, the untier of all (material) bondages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-18\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 18<\/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 16 SlOkam \u2013 Original yukthAhAravihArasya yukthachEstasya karmasu | yukthasvapnAvabOdhasya yOgO bhavathi dhu:khahA || word-by-word meaning yukthAhAra vihArasya &#8211; consuming adequate quantity of food and having adequate physical movements karmasu &#8211; in his activities yuktha chEshtasya &#8211; having adequate engagements &#8230; <a title=\"6.17 yukthAhAravihArasya\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-17\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.17 yukthAhAravihArasya\">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-2696","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\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}