{"id":4089,"date":"2017-03-23T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2017-03-23T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:42:37","slug":"10-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-17\/","title":{"rendered":"10.17 katham vidhyAm aham yogI"},"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\/10-16\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 16<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-17-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>katham vidhyAm aham yogI thvAm sadhA parichinthayan |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> kEshu kEshu cha bhAvEshu chinthyO\u2019si bhagavan mayA ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>bhagavan &#8211; Oh lord who is the ocean of auspicious qualities!<br \/>\nyOgI aham &#8211; I who am a bhakthi yOga nishta (bhakthi yOga practitioner)<br \/>\nthvAm &#8211; you<br \/>\nsadhA &#8211; constantly<br \/>\nparichinthayan &#8211; engaged in thinking [about you]<br \/>\n(thvAm &#8211; you)<br \/>\nkatham vidhyAm &#8211; how can I know?<br \/>\nkEshu kEshu cha bhAvEshu &#8211; whichever objects (which have not been described previously)<br \/>\nmayA &#8211; by me<br \/>\nchinthya asi &#8211; how are you to be meditated (as the controller of those objects)?<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>Oh lord who is the ocean of auspicious qualities! How can I, a bhakthi yOga nishta (bhakthi yOga practitioner), know you, by constantly engaged in thinking [about you]? How are you to be meditated by me as the controller of\u00a0whichever objects (which have not been described previously)?<\/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;How can I, Your votary, know You, by constantly meditating on You? In what ways, O Lord! are You, by me, to be meditated?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, Your votary (yogi)=the follower of <em>bhakti-yoga<\/em>. How can I, embarked on constant meditation of You, in love, know You as the endowed of Perfection, Sovereignty and other Illustrious Attributes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In what other ways yet untold, \u2014ways other than those already described by You as in: \u2018Decision, Knowledge etc.\u2019 (<em>G\u012bt\u0101<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-4-original\/\">X-4<\/a> etc)., are You \u2014as the Ruler &amp;c.,\u2014 to be reflected on by Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-18\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 10 verse 18<\/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 16 SlOkam \u2013 Original katham vidhyAm aham yogI thvAm sadhA parichinthayan | kEshu kEshu cha bhAvEshu chinthyO\u2019si bhagavan mayA || word-by-word meaning bhagavan &#8211; Oh lord who is the ocean of auspicious qualities! yOgI aham &#8211; I who am &#8230; <a title=\"10.17 katham vidhyAm aham yogI\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-17\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 10.17 katham vidhyAm aham yogI\">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":[3,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-10","category-simple","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","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=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}