{"id":4111,"date":"2017-03-28T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2017-03-28T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:20:44","slug":"10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-22\/","title":{"rendered":"10.22 vEdhAnAm sAmavEdhO\u2019smi"},"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\/10-21\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 10 verse 21<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-22-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>vEdhAnAm sAmavEdhO\u2019smi dhEvAnAm asmi vAsava: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> indhriyANAm manaS chAsmi bhUthAnAm asmi chEthanA ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>vEdhAnAm &#8211; among vEdhams<br \/>\nsAma vEdha: asmi &#8211; I am sAma vEdham (which is the best)<br \/>\ndhEvAnAm &#8211; among dhEvathAs (celestial beings)<br \/>\nvAsava asmi &#8211; I am indhra (the best among them)<br \/>\nindhriyANAm &#8211; among the eleven senses<br \/>\nmana: cha asmi &#8211; I am the mind (which is the best).<br \/>\nbhUthAnAm &#8211; for the creatures with intelligence<br \/>\nchEthAnA asmi &#8211; I am their intelligence.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>I am sAma vEdham (which is the best) among vEdhams; among dhEvathAs,\u00a0I am indhra (the best among them); among the eleven senses, I am the mind (which is the best). I am the intelligence in the creatures with intelligence.<\/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;Of the Vedas, I am S\u0101ma-veda, of the Devas, I am V\u0101sava (Indra); of the senses, I am <em>manas<\/em>; of the beings, I am intelligence.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am the S\u0101ma-veda, the chief among the four Vedas, Rik, Yajus, S\u0101ma and Atharva\u1e47a; of the devas (celestials), I am Indra. Of the eleven senses[1. The five organs of perception, the five organs of action, and the <em>manas<\/em>=11. Vide Table, p: 257-258.], the chief <em>manas<\/em>, I am. Of the beings (or living things) I am intelligence (<em>chetan\u0101<\/em>), <em>i.e.<\/em>, what is intelligence in them, I am that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-23\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 10 verse 23<\/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 21 SlOkam \u2013 Original vEdhAnAm sAmavEdhO\u2019smi dhEvAnAm asmi vAsava: | indhriyANAm manaS chAsmi bhUthAnAm asmi chEthanA || word-by-word meaning vEdhAnAm &#8211; among vEdhams sAma vEdha: asmi &#8211; I am sAma vEdham (which is the best) dhEvAnAm &#8211; among dhEvathAs &#8230; <a title=\"10.22 vEdhAnAm sAmavEdhO\u2019smi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/10-22\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 10.22 vEdhAnAm sAmavEdhO\u2019smi\">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-4111","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\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}