{"id":2909,"date":"2016-12-14T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2016-12-14T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:20:11","slug":"6-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-42\/","title":{"rendered":"6.42 athavA yOginAmEva"},"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\/6-41\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 41<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-42-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>athavA yOginAmEva kulE mahathi [bhavathi] dhImathAm |<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ethadhdhi dhurlabhatharam lOkE janma yadhIdhruSam ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>athavA &#8211; Alternatively<\/p>\n<p>(If he slipped, after becoming well advanced in the yOga practice)<br \/>\ndhImathAm &#8211; very wise<br \/>\nyOginAm Eva &#8211; in the yOgis&#8217;<br \/>\nmahathi kulE &#8211; great families<br \/>\n(abhijAyathE &#8211; takes birth)<br \/>\nIdhruSam yath janma Ethath &#8211; these two types of births (explained in previous SlOkam and this SlOkam)<br \/>\nlOkE &#8211; in this world<br \/>\ndhurlabha tharam hi &#8211; aren&#8217;t they difficult to attain [for people]?<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Alternatively, (If he slipped, after becoming well advanced in the yOga practice), he takes birth in the great families of very wise yOgis. Aren&#8217;t these two types of births difficult to attain [for people] in this world?<\/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;Or, he is born in a family of wise yogis, but this kind of birth indeed is in this world most seldom merited.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If he had diverged from Yoga almost at the stage of fruition, he is (now) born in a family of illuminated sages (yog\u012bs), or those who are themselves versed in the Science of Yoga and can indoctrinate others too in it. In both these cases, difficult among mankind is such re-incarnation <em>viz<\/em>: (1) that of being born among the yoga-fit, and (2) of being born among the yoga-full. When it does take place, it is a result of the efficacy of Yoga pursued to a certain extent already and discontinued for (some reason or the other).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-43\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 43<\/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 41 SlOkam \u2013 Original athavA yOginAmEva kulE mahathi [bhavathi] dhImathAm | Ethadhdhi dhurlabhatharam lOkE janma yadhIdhruSam || word-by-word meaning athavA &#8211; Alternatively (If he slipped, after becoming well advanced in the yOga practice) dhImathAm &#8211; very wise yOginAm Eva &#8230; <a title=\"6.42 athavA yOginAmEva\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-42\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.42 athavA yOginAmEva\">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-2909","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\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}