{"id":3347,"date":"2016-12-26T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2016-12-26T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:48:10","slug":"7-23-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-23-original\/","title":{"rendered":"7.23 antavat tu phala\u1e41 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 (Original)"},"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-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-22-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 7 verse 22<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">antavat tu phala\u1e41 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41<br \/>\ntad bhavaty alpa-medhas\u0101m<br \/>\ndev\u0101n deva-yajo y\u0101nti<br \/>\nmad-bhakt\u0101 y\u0101nti m\u0101m api<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;But to those of small understanding, (all) fruit has an ending. The votaries of the deities join the deities; My votaries join Myself.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fruits or rewards which the witless men who worship lower deities like Indra etc., obtain, are trivial and transient. Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the worshippers of Indra etc., go to those very divinities whom they worship. The blessed state of Indra etc., is indeed restricted, and lasts, besides, for a time only. The worshippers achieve but that blessed state as is on a par with that of Indra etc., but when Indra and other deities reach the end of their happy state, they fall; with them do their worshippers necessarily also fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for My worshippers, they also perform the very same acts of worship as those men, but they do them with the knowledge that they are acts of <em>My<\/em> worship; and do them without regard for their appropriate fruits; do them as acts having for their reward nothing else than the pleasure they afford Me. My devotees, thus, attain to Myself, and they do not return (or fall, as the others do). Verily so, it is declared:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<em>M\u0101m upetya etc.,<\/em>) \u2018But, by joining Me, Kaunteya! there is no re-birth.\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-16-original\/\">viii-16<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the following verse, the Lord says: there are people who disregard even My Avatars among men undertaken for the express purpose that they may have easy access to Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-24-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 7 verse 24<\/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.org<\/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 22 Simple antavat tu phala\u1e41 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 tad bhavaty alpa-medhas\u0101m dev\u0101n deva-yajo y\u0101nti mad-bhakt\u0101 y\u0101nti m\u0101m api &#8216;But to those of small understanding, (all) fruit has an ending. The votaries of the deities join the deities; My votaries join Myself.&#8217; &#8230; <a title=\"7.23 antavat tu phala\u1e41 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-23-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 7.23 antavat tu phala\u1e41 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 (Original)\">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":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-7","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","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=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}