SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 8 verse 5<\/a><\/p>\n yam yam vA’pi smaran bhAvam thyajathyanthE kaLEbaram |<\/em> kaunthEya – Oh arjuna! (Because) Oh arjuna! When one leaves the body, meditating upon whichever state in the last moments, he attains that state; (because) did he not always focus on that?<\/p>\n ‘With whatever idea, occupying his thought,, one leaves the body, at time of death, that he becomes, Kaunteya!, as a result of his constant brooding over that (idea).’<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever image prominently floats in one\u2019s thought at the hour of death, and he leaves his body with that as the last thought, that he becomes after death (thought becomes form<\/em>). The last thought will naturally be of the kind over which one will have been constantly brooding during his lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 8 verse 7<\/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 5 SlOkam \u2013 Original yam yam vA’pi smaran bhAvam thyajathyanthE kaLEbaram | tham tham Evaithi kaunthEya sadhA thadhbhAvabhAvitha: || word-by-word meaning kaunthEya – Oh arjuna! anthE – in the last moments yam yam vApi bhAvam smaran kaLEbaram thyajathi – … 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-3471","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\/3471","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=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n tham tham Evaithi kaunthEya sadhA thadhbhAvabhAvitha: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nanthE – in the last moments
\nyam yam vApi bhAvam smaran kaLEbaram thyajathi – leaves the body, meditating upon whichever state
\ntham tham Eva Ethi – he attains that state<\/p>\n
\nsadhA thadhbhAvabhAvitha: – Did he not always focus on that?<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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