{"id":3489,"date":"2017-01-04T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:32:00","slug":"8-8-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-8-original\/","title":{"rendered":"8.8 abhy\u0101sa-yoga-yuktena (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\/8-7-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 8 verse 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">abhy\u0101sa-yoga-yuktena<br \/>\ncetas\u0101 n\u0101nya-g\u0101min\u0101<br \/>\nparama\u1e41 puru\u1e63a\u1e41 divya\u1e41<br \/>\ny\u0101ti p\u0101rth\u0101nucintayan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;With mind, unwandering elsewhere, and inured to meditation, P\u0101rtha[1. Epithet of Arjuna, being a descendant of P\u1e5bithu-Chakravarti.]! one, by fervid recollection, goeth to Parama-purusha[2. <em>Parama-Purusha<\/em> = Synonym <em>Purushottama<\/em>(&#8216;The Super-excellent Person&#8217;, the 24th name of God, (vide also, P\u0101ta\u00f1jala Yoga-S\u016btra I.24, (which says <em>purusha-vi\u015bes\u1e25<\/em>) &#8211; Purusha is the common term to denote a <em>thinking<\/em> substance from an <em>unthinking<\/em> substance. <em>Utpurusha<\/em>=bound soul; <em>uttara-purusha<\/em>=liberated soul, <em>uttama-purusha<\/em>=the ever-free soul; <em>Purushottama<\/em>=Soul Supreme=God.): <em>Purusha<\/em> means etymologically He who grants abundance; &#8220;<em>puru=bahu, sanoti=dad\u0101ti.<\/em>&#8221; Thus Parama-Purusha means the Supreme all-Giver.], -Divine.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By meditation, daily practised, the mind is to be fixed thereto and not permitted to wander away elsewhere. With the mind so trained, I am to be thought of at the time of death, as the Paramapurusha-Divine, and so on in the manner further explained (verses <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-9-original\/\">9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-10-original\/\">10<\/a>). So thought of, one reaches Me alone. In the manner that \u0100dibharata brought himself to be born like an animal, one, by force of the mode of meditation prescribed for him, will be born, possessed of fortune etc., comparable to even that of Mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Abhy\u0101sa<\/em> is practice or training or habiting, or exercise of the mind to ruminate on the object of meditation, at all those other times also than that which is set apart for the performance of daily and occasional duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yoga<\/em> is the particular mode of meditation which is prescribed to be practised at a fixed time set apart for every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-9-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 8 verse 9<\/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 7 Simple abhy\u0101sa-yoga-yuktena cetas\u0101 n\u0101nya-g\u0101min\u0101 parama\u1e41 puru\u1e63a\u1e41 divya\u1e41 y\u0101ti p\u0101rth\u0101nucintayan &#8216;With mind, unwandering elsewhere, and inured to meditation, P\u0101rtha[1. Epithet of Arjuna, being a descendant of P\u1e5bithu-Chakravarti.]! one, by fervid recollection, goeth to Parama-purusha[2. Parama-Purusha = Synonym Purushottama(&#8216;The Super-excellent &#8230; <a title=\"8.8 abhy\u0101sa-yoga-yuktena (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-8-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 8.8 abhy\u0101sa-yoga-yuktena (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-3489","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\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}