{"id":3801,"date":"2017-02-15T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2017-02-15T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:05:54","slug":"9-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-13\/","title":{"rendered":"9.13 mahAthmAnas thu mAm pArtha"},"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\/9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-12\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 9 verse 12<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-13-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>mahAthmAnas thu mAm pArtha dhaivIm prakruthim ASrithA: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> bhajanthyananyamanasO gyAthvA bhUthAdhim avyayam ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>pArtha &#8211; Oh son of kunthI!<br \/>\ndhaivIm prakruthim ASrithA: &#8211; those who acquired divine nature<br \/>\nmahAthmana: thu &#8211; but gyAnis, the great souls<br \/>\nmAm &#8211; me<br \/>\nbhUthAdhim &#8211; as the origin of all creatures<br \/>\navyayam &#8211; as <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imperishable<\/span><br \/>\ngyAthvA &#8211; knowing<br \/>\nananya manasa: &#8211; without focussing their mind on anything else<br \/>\nbhajanthi &#8211; engaged in devotion (towards me)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Oh son of kunthI! But gyAnis, the great souls, who acquired divine nature, knowing me as the origin of all creatures, and as i<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mperishable<\/span>, are engaged in devotion (towards me) without focussing their mind on anything else.<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;But the great-souled, P\u0101rtha!, wedded to divine nature, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ken#Verb\">ken<\/a> Me the Origin of things, and the Inexhaustible, and worship Me with rapt minds.'[1. Read <em>\u015a\u0101n\u1e0dilya<\/em>: S\u016btras; 56, 57 and 58.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But those, whose self-acquired merits have led them to come to Me as their Asylum; whose bonds of sin have been broken down, and who partake of the divine nature, are noble-souled (<em>mah\u0101tm\u0101s<\/em>). And they know Me as the Begining of all things, and the Infinite \u2014<em>i.e.<\/em>, of such a nature, as Whose acts and epithets are beyond reach of word and thought, \u2014Who incarnates in man\u2019s guise out of infinite compassion, \u2014to protect the good. Knowing Me thus, they adore Me, with minds exclusively devoted to Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exclusive devotion of the mind means: that exultant state of the mind which is ecstatically so transported with love for Me, that, were it not for such worshipful devotional mood, not the mind alone, but the soul itself, together with the external senses, would become insupportable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They worship Me, then, in such singleness of mind, as if worship alone constituted their sole end and aim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-14\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 9 verse 14<\/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.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 9 &lt;&lt; Chapter 9 verse 12 SlOkam \u2013 Original mahAthmAnas thu mAm pArtha dhaivIm prakruthim ASrithA: | bhajanthyananyamanasO gyAthvA bhUthAdhim avyayam || word-by-word meaning pArtha &#8211; Oh son of kunthI! dhaivIm prakruthim ASrithA: &#8211; those who acquired divine nature mahAthmana: thu &#8211; but gyAnis, &#8230; <a title=\"9.13 mahAthmAnas thu mAm pArtha\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/9-13\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 9.13 mahAthmAnas thu mAm pArtha\">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":[19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-9","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}