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Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 8 verse 4<\/a><\/p>\n anthakAlE cha mAm Eva smaran mukthvA kaLEbaram |<\/em> antha kAlE cha – even during the last moments (while attaining the desired results) Whosover sheds his body meditating upon me (along with his desired results) even during the last moments (while attaining the desired results), attains my state; no doubt in this.<\/p>\n ‘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.’<\/span><\/p>\n This meditation (at time of death) is also common to all the three classes of votaries (or aspirants).<\/span><\/p>\n 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 Like unto Me (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 Vish: pur:<\/em> ii-13-32, 33. Another name of this king-saint is Jada-bharata. He died, watched by the deer, ‘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’. H.H. Wilson<\/em>. Also Bh\u0101gavata<\/em> ‘m\u1e5biya\u015bar\u012bram av\u0101pa’ 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 That whatsoever be the image present in the last thought of the meditator, that he becomes, is further elucidated;\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 8 verse 6<\/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 8 << Chapter 8 verse 4 SlOkam \u2013 Original anthakAlE cha mAm Eva smaran mukthvA kaLEbaram | ya: prayAthi sa madhbhAvam yAthi nAsthyathra samSaya: || word-by-word meaning antha kAlE cha – even during the last moments (while attaining the desired results) ya; – whosoever … 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":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","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=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n ya: prayAthi sa madhbhAvam yAthi nAsthyathra samSaya: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nya; – whosoever
\nmAm Eva smaran – meditating upon me (along with his desired results)
\nkaLEbaram thyakthvA prayAthi – sheds his body
\nsa: – he
\nmadhbhAvam yAthi – attains my state;
\nathra – in this
\nsamSaya: na asthi – no doubt<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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