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Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 8 verse 7<\/a><\/p>\n abhyAsayOgayukthEna chEthasA nAnyagAminA |<\/em> pArtha – Oh arjuna! Oh arjuna! with the heart that is fixed on abhyAsam (practice) and yOga (bhakthi yOga) and not deviating into anything else, one who thinks (at the time of death) about the best and divine purusha (person) [i.e., krishNa], attains me who is such best\/divine person; (i.e., becomes the owner of great wealth).<\/p>\n ‘With mind, unwandering elsewhere, and inured to meditation, P\u0101rtha[1. Epithet of Arjuna, being a descendant of P\u1e5bithu-Chakravarti.]! one, by fervid<\/a> recollection, goes to Parama-purusha[2. Parama-Purusha<\/em> = Synonym Purushottama<\/em>(‘The Super-excellent Person’, the 24th name of God, (vide also, P\u0101ta\u00f1jala Yoga-S\u016btra I.24, (which says purusha-vi\u015bes\u1e25<\/em>) – Purusha is the common term to denote a thinking<\/em> substance from an unthinking<\/em> substance. Utpurusha<\/em>=bound soul; uttara-purusha<\/em>=liberated soul, uttama-purusha<\/em>=the ever-free soul; Purushottama<\/em>=Soul Supreme=God.): Purusha<\/em> means etymologically He who grants abundance; “puru=bahu, sanoti=dad\u0101ti.<\/em>” Thus Parama-Purusha means the Supreme all-Giver.], -Divine.’<\/span><\/p>\n By meditation, daily practiced, 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 9<\/a> and 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 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 Yoga<\/em> is the particular mode of meditation which is prescribed to be practiced at a fixed time set apart for every day.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 8 verse 9<\/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 7 SlOkam \u2013 Original abhyAsayOgayukthEna chEthasA nAnyagAminA | paramam purusham dhivyam yAthi pArthAnuchinthayan || word-by-word meaning pArtha – Oh arjuna! abhyAsa yOga yukthEna – with abhyAsam (practice) and yOga (bhakthi yOga) nAnya gAminA – not deviating into anything else … 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-3491","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\/3491","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=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n paramam purusham dhivyam yAthi pArthAnuchinthayan ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nabhyAsa yOga yukthEna – with abhyAsam (practice) and yOga (bhakthi yOga)
\nnAnya gAminA – not deviating into anything else
\nchEthasA – heart
\nparamam dhivyam purusham – the best and divine purusha (person) [i.e., krishNa]
\nanuchinthayan – one who thinks (at the time of death)
\n(paramam dhivyam purusham) yAthi – attains me who is such best\/divine person; (i.e., becomes the owner of great wealth)<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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