{"id":3175,"date":"2016-12-20T20:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2016-12-20T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:59:35","slug":"7-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-11\/","title":{"rendered":"7.11 balam balavathAm chAham"},"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\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-10\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 7 verse 10<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-11-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>balam balavathAm chAham kAmarAgavivarjitham |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> dharmAvirudhdho bhUthEshu kAmo\u2019smi bharatharushabha ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>bharatha rushabha &#8211; Oh best among the descendants of bharatha!<br \/>\naham &#8211; I<br \/>\nbalavathAm &#8211; of the strong<br \/>\nkAma rAga vivarjitham balam (asmi) &#8211; am the strength which keeps them away from lust<br \/>\nbhUthEshu &#8211; in all creatures<br \/>\ndharmAvirudhdha: &#8211; unconflicting with dharma (virtue)<br \/>\nkAma: asmi &#8211; I am the desire<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Oh best among the descendants of bharatha! I am the strength of the strong [persons] which keeps them away from lust. I am the desire which is unconflicting with dharma (virtue) in all creatures.<\/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;And, of the strong, I am the strength, divorced from lust and love. And desire, unconflicting with virtue (<em>dharma<\/em>), I am, O Chief of Bh\u0101ratas!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these things of distinguishing qualities are sprung from Me alone. They are My belongings, and constitute My body. Hence they are ever in Me. Hence I am the Sole Existence, they standing to Me in the relation of My predicates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things are now viewed in another way:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-12\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 7 verse 12<\/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 7 &lt;&lt; Chapter 7 verse 10 SlOkam \u2013 Original balam balavathAm chAham kAmarAgavivarjitham | dharmAvirudhdho bhUthEshu kAmo\u2019smi bharatharushabha || word-by-word meaning bharatha rushabha &#8211; Oh best among the descendants of bharatha! aham &#8211; I balavathAm &#8211; of the strong kAma rAga vivarjitham balam (asmi) &#8230; <a title=\"7.11 balam balavathAm chAham\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-11\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 7.11 balam balavathAm chAham\">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":[17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-7","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}