{"id":3462,"date":"2017-01-03T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2017-01-03T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:58:22","slug":"8-5-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-5-original\/","title":{"rendered":"8.5 anta-k\u0101le ca m\u0101m eva (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\/8-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-4-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 8 verse 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">anta-k\u0101le ca m\u0101m eva<br \/>\nsmaran muktv\u0101 kalevaram<br \/>\nya\u1e25 pray\u0101ti sa mad-bh\u0101va\u1e41<br \/>\ny\u0101ti n\u0101sty atra sa\u1e41\u015baya\u1e25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Whoso, at the hour of death, meditating on Me alone, casts off his mortal coil, attains unto My state. No doubt is there about this.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This meditation (at time of death) is also common to all the three classes of votaries (or aspirants).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He who, when his end approaches, has Me alone in his remembrance, and thus departs from the body, becomes like unto Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like unto Me (<em>madbh\u0101va<\/em>)=like unto. My nature. Whatsoever image of Me is vividly present in his imagination at time of death, that he becomes, as in the case of \u0100di-bharata[4. See <em>Vish: pur:<\/em> ii-13-32, 33. Another name of this king-saint is Jada-bharata. He died, watched by the deer, &#8216;with tears in its eyes, like a son mourning for his father; and he himself, as he expired, cast his eyes upon the animal, and thought of nothing else, being wholly occupied with one idea. In consequence of this predominant feeling at such a season, he was born again in the Jambumarga forest, as a deer, with the faculty of recollecting his former a life&#8217;. <em>H.H. Wilson<\/em>. Also <em>Bh\u0101gavata<\/em> &#8216;m\u1e5biya\u015bar\u012bram av\u0101pa&#8217; V-8-24.] and others, who incarnated in the forms of animals etc., by reason of such images having prominently been present in their thoughts at their last moments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That whatsoever be the image present in the last thought of the meditator, that he becomes, is further elucidated;\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-6-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 8 verse 6<\/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 8 &lt;&lt; Chapter 8 verse 4 Simple anta-k\u0101le ca m\u0101m eva smaran muktv\u0101 kalevaram ya\u1e25 pray\u0101ti sa mad-bh\u0101va\u1e41 y\u0101ti n\u0101sty atra sa\u1e41\u015baya\u1e25 &#8216;Whoso, at the hour of death, meditating on Me alone, casts off his mortal coil, attains unto My state. No doubt is &#8230; <a title=\"8.5 anta-k\u0101le ca m\u0101m eva (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-5-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 8.5 anta-k\u0101le ca m\u0101m eva (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":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","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=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}