{"id":2951,"date":"2016-12-14T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2016-12-14T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:55:46","slug":"6-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-44\/","title":{"rendered":"6.44 jigyAsurapi yOgasya"},"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\/6-43-5\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 6 verse 43.5<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-44-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>jigyAsurapi yOgasya SabdhabrahmAthivarthathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>yOgasya jigyAsu: api &#8211; one who desires to learn and practice yOga (even after slipping from the path of yOga, by the greatness of the yOga, as previously explained, will have that yOga fulfilled)<br \/>\nSabdha brahma athivarthathE &#8211; crosses over the prakruthi (material nature) which is known as &#8220;Sabdha brahmam&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>One who desires to learn and practice yOga (even after slipping from the path of yOga, by the greatness of the yOga, as previously explained, will have that yOga fulfilled), crosses over the prakruthi (material nature) which is known as &#8220;Sabdha brahmam&#8221;.<\/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;Even he who has the (mere) desire to know Yoga passes beyond the <em>name-great<\/em>[1. <em>Name-great<\/em> or the infinite matter-expanse, the greatness of which consists in having names and forms. The <em>Nameless-Great<\/em> is the Omnipresent Spirit, in contrast with the <em>name-great<\/em> (matter-stuff).] (\u015babda-brahma).&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even he who may not actually embark on Yoga, but is a mere inquirer, resumes such inquiry if he had discontinued the same on a previous occasion (or incarnation). And he gradually comes again to walk the Path of Karma-yoga, and eventually transcends the <em>name-great<\/em>, [or the vast expanse of matter which is the cause of names and forms (<em>\u015babda-brahma<\/em>).].<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u015aabda-brahma signifies matter, for it is the great matter-stuff in its manifested modification which gets to be named (<em>\u015babdita<\/em>) as devas, men, earth, the sky, svarga, etc. Hence that which is nameable is the <em>name-great<\/em> (matter-stuff.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the mere inquirer as to what Yoga is, acquires merit, and ultimately passes beyond <em>\u015babda-brahma<\/em>. This means that he becomes unfettered from matter\u2019s coils, and attains to \u0101tma, the sole harbour of intelligence and bliss (<em>j\u00f1\u0101na<\/em> and <em>\u0101nanda<\/em>), or that which <em>cannot be named<\/em> as <em>can be named<\/em> those objects as are matter-moulded, such as deva, man etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-45\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 6 verse 45<\/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 43.5 SlOkam \u2013 Original jigyAsurapi yOgasya SabdhabrahmAthivarthathE || word-by-word meaning yOgasya jigyAsu: api &#8211; one who desires to learn and practice yOga (even after slipping from the path of yOga, by the greatness of the yOga, as previously explained, &#8230; <a title=\"6.44 jigyAsurapi yOgasya\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/6-44\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 6.44 jigyAsurapi yOgasya\">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-2951","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\/2951","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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}