{"id":3953,"date":"2017-03-11T21:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2017-03-11T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:28:52","slug":"10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10.2 na mE vidhu: suragaNA:"},"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\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-1\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 1<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-2-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>na mE vidhu: suragaNA: prabhavam na maharshaya: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> aham Adhir hi dhEvAnAm maharshINAm cha sarvaSa: ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>suragaNA: &#8211; Groups of dhEvas (celestial beings)<br \/>\nmE prabhavam &#8211; my greatness<br \/>\nna vidhu &#8211; do not know.<br \/>\nmaharshaya &#8211; great sages<br \/>\nna vidhu: &#8211; also do not know (that).<br \/>\nhi &#8211; This is because<br \/>\ndhEvAnAm &#8211; for the dhEvas<br \/>\nmaharshINAm cha &#8211; and for the great sages<br \/>\naham &#8211; I<br \/>\nsarvaSa &#8211; in all aspects<br \/>\nAdhi: &#8211; not the origin?<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Groups of dhEvas (celestial beings) do not know my greatness. Great sages also do not know that. This is because, am I not the origin for these dhEvas and the great sages?<\/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;Not the hosts of Suras, nor the Maharshis, ken My Greatness; (for) verily am I, every way, the prior to Devas and Maharshis.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The companies of the Suras (Devas), and even the Maharshis who are capable of supersensuous perception, and are highly illuminated, know not My High Nature= prabhavam = prabh\u0101vam. In other words, they know not the Divine nature of My titles, My deeds, My essence, and My attributes. In every way am I the Source of the being, the intelligence and the power possessed by them (the Devas etc). What intelligence etc., they have, is limited, being but the measure of their merit awarded by Me, making them what they are, Devas and Devarshis. Their intelligence (or consciousness) being limited, they cannot gauge the exactitude of My nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That knowledge concerning Me is now stated, which Devas etc., cannot conceive, \u2014knowledge which would remove the obnoxious elements which stand in the way of Love (<em>bhakti<\/em>) growing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-3\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 10 verse 3<\/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 10 &lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 1 SlOkam \u2013 Original na mE vidhu: suragaNA: prabhavam na maharshaya: | aham Adhir hi dhEvAnAm maharshINAm cha sarvaSa: || word-by-word meaning suragaNA: &#8211; Groups of dhEvas (celestial beings) mE prabhavam &#8211; my greatness na vidhu &#8211; do not &#8230; <a title=\"10.2 na mE vidhu: suragaNA:\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 10.2 na mE vidhu: suragaNA:\">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":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-10","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}