SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 7<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 7 verse 18<\/a><\/p>\n bahUnAm janmanAm anthE gyAnavAn mAm prapadhyathE |<\/em> bahUnAm janmanAm anthE – after many virtuous births After many virtuous births, a gyAni whose knowledge is matured thinking “vAsudhEva is my parama prApyam (ultimate goal), prApaka (means), dhAraka (who sustains me), pOshaka (who nourishes me), bhOgya (who gives pleasure to me) and so on” surrenders unto me. He is large hearted and is difficult to attain for me (in this world).<\/p>\n ‘Become wise at the end of many births, one worships Me. That high-souled saint (mah\u0101tma<\/em>) is very rare, to whom V\u0101sudeva[2. This is the 334th, 700th and 714th name of God. See Mah\u0101-bh\u0101. Moksha Dharma<\/em>-166; Ud:par:<\/em>68-3; Vish:pur:<\/em> i-2-12. V\u0101sudeva has four hypostases<\/a>, Para-V\u0101sudeva, Vy\u016bha-V\u0101sudeva, Vasudeva\u2019s Son, He who permeates all and sports. Vide note 2, p: 261.] is all.[3. Cp. with VII-3<\/a>].’<\/span><\/p>\n It takes not a few births of meritorious works, for one to ripen into that consummate wisdom that the soul is by nature the servant of the Lord. It takes many births of a meritorious kind, at the end of which one will know: \u2018I am essentially liege (\u015aesha) to V\u0101sudeva; my doings, my (nature) and my very being, dependent on Him. As for Him, He is most Superior by His countless Glorious Attributes.\u2019 Then is he j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n<\/em>, the sage or the wise or illuminated person. This is how he reflects: \u2018V\u0101sudeva is My Highest Goal, V\u0101sudeva is My Way; whatsoever my heart longeth, all that is V\u0101sudeva to me,\u2019[4. He who looks on God as his father, friend, mother, lover etc., and and all. Cp. Sub: Up: 6, and Bh: Gi: XI-17<\/a>.]. Such is the high-souled one who is very rare to be found in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018V\u0101sudeva is All\u2019 to me,\u2019 means that which was declared to be the nature of the j\u00f1\u0101ni<\/em> in:<\/span><\/p>\n (Priyo hi<\/em> etc.,) \u2018Very dear indeed am I to the j\u00f1\u0101ni<\/em>,\u2019 (vii-17<\/a>) and,<\/span><\/p>\n (\u0100sthitas etc.,<\/em>) \u2018Is not he My sole-devoted, dependent on Me as the only Unsurpassable Goal?\u2019 (vii-18<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n And the j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n<\/em>, or the wisdom-ripe is he who is of the kind described in these verses. (a real God lover=the Bhakt\u0101<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n The knowledge or wisdom of this j\u00f1\u0101ni<\/em> is such as is declared in:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n (Bh\u016bmir \u0101po etc.<\/em>) \u2018Earth, water etc\u2019,…and egotism is the eight-fold division of My Nature\u2019 (vii-4<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n (Apareyam etc.,<\/em>) \u2018But this is inferior. Know My other Nature superior than that, the living Nature\u2019 (vii-5<\/a>); where the essentially dependent (or allegiant) nature of the two Categories of Matter and Soul, on the Supreme Spirit, is pointed out. Again is his wisdom such as is declared in:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n (Aham k\u1e5bitsnasya etc.,<\/em>) I am the Origin and the End of all the Kosmos. (vii-6<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n (Matta\u1e25 parataram etc.<\/em>) \u2018Naught whatever higher than I exists, Dhana\u00f1jaya!\u2019 (vii-7<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n (Ye-ch-aiva etc.,<\/em>) \u2018Those things that are s\u0101tvika, and those r\u0101jas\u0101 and t\u0101masa know, they all deduce from Me alone. But I am not in them, in Me are they.\u2019 (vii-12<\/a>);<\/span><\/p>\n It is evident from these (verses) that both the two Natures (Matter and Soul), in both their conditions of cause and effect, are dependent on the Supreme Spirit for their very existence, character and impulses, and that the Supreme Spirit is in every way Superior to all.[1. Cp: We live and move and have our being in Him, (Acts, xvii-28)]<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, he who possesses this wisdom, is the j\u00f1\u0101ni<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n That such a j\u00f1\u0101ni<\/em> is most rare is further dwelt on:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 7 verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 7 << Chapter 7 verse 18 SlOkam \u2013 Original bahUnAm janmanAm anthE gyAnavAn mAm prapadhyathE | vAsudhEva: sarvam ithi sa mahAthmA sudhurlabha: || word-by-word meaning bahUnAm janmanAm anthE – after many virtuous births gyAnavAn – a gyAni whose knowledge is matured vAsudhEva: sarvam ithi … 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-3322","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\/3322","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=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n vAsudhEva: sarvam ithi sa mahAthmA sudhurlabha: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\ngyAnavAn – a gyAni whose knowledge is matured
\nvAsudhEva: sarvam ithi – thinking “vAsudhEva is my parama prApyam (ultimate goal), prApaka (means), dhAraka (who sustains me), pOshaka (who nourishes me), bhOgya (who gives pleasure to me) and so on”
\nmAm prapadhyathE – surrenders unto me.
\nsa: – He
\nmahAthmA – is large hearted;
\nsudhurlabha: – difficult to attain for me (in this world).<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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