{"id":3364,"date":"2016-12-27T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2016-12-27T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:39:08","slug":"7-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-25\/","title":{"rendered":"7.25 nAham prakASa: sarvasya"},"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\/7-24\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 7 verse 24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-25-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>nAham prakASa: sarvasya yogamAyAsamAvrutha: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> mUdO\u2019yam nAbhijAnAthi lOkO mAm ajam avyayam ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>yOgAmAyA samAvrutha: aham &#8211; I who have assumed a human form , covered by mAyA (amazing ability)<br \/>\nsarvasya &#8211; for most people in this world<br \/>\nna prakASa: &#8211; not shining (as paramAthmA);<br \/>\nmUda: ayam lOka: &#8211; ignorant people of this world<br \/>\nmAm &#8211; me<br \/>\najam &#8211; as the cause who does not have births (which are based on karma)<br \/>\navyayam &#8211; the imperishable sarvESvara<br \/>\nna abhijAnathi &#8211; do not analyse and know me such<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>I, who have assumed a human form, covered by mAyA (amazing ability), am not shining for most people in this world; ignorant people of this world do not analyse and know me as the cause who does not have births (which are based on karma) and the imperishable sarvESvara.<\/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;Enveloped\u2014in yoga-maya, I do not shine to all. This ignorant world knows Me not as the Birthless and Deathless.'[ Cp. <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-11-original\/\">IX-11. Bh: Gi.<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am not obvious to all, as I am enveloped in that congeries of material units (=the compound, called the body=<em>yoga<\/em>), taking the form of the human, and appearing to mortals as but a human shape, the usual habitat to which the embodied (karma-bound) souls are accustomed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just because I appear anthropomorphic, the blind world does not understand that corporeity (or incarnation) is, in purpose, assumed with a view to be within the reach of all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/albeit\">Albeit<\/a> that My feats (or miraculous acts) transcend the powers of V\u0101yu and Indra (Symbols of the mighty forces of Nature, the Deified Powers of the wind, of the firmament etc)., and that My lustrous glory dims and darkens the light of the sun and the glare of the fire, the stupid world knows Me not, \u2014just because of My appearance as human,\u2014 as the Birthless (because I am the <em>Causa Causorum<\/em>), and Deathless (being the Lord of all).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-26\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 7 verse 26<\/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 24 SlOkam \u2013 Original nAham prakASa: sarvasya yogamAyAsamAvrutha: | mUdO\u2019yam nAbhijAnAthi lOkO mAm ajam avyayam || word-by-word meaning yOgAmAyA samAvrutha: aham &#8211; I who have assumed a human form , covered by mAyA (amazing ability) sarvasya &#8211; for most &#8230; <a title=\"7.25 nAham prakASa: sarvasya\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/7-25\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 7.25 nAham prakASa: sarvasya\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","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\/3364","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=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}