{"id":4420,"date":"2017-06-16T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2024-09-25T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T21:10:48","slug":"11-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-31\/","title":{"rendered":"11.31 AkhyAhi mE kO bhavAn ugrarUpO"},"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\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter 11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-30\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 11 verse 30<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-31-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>AkhyAhi mE kO bhavAn ugrarUpO namO\u2019sthu thE dhEvavara prasIdha |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> vigyAthum ichchAmi bhavantham Adhyam na hi prajAnAmi thava prav\u1e5buththim ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>dhEvavara &#8211; Oh best among dhEvathAs!<br \/>\nugra rUpa bhavAn &#8211; you who are having very fierce form<br \/>\nka: &#8211; what do you desire to do?<br \/>\nAdhyam bhavantham &#8211; about you who are the original cause<br \/>\nvigyAthum &#8211; to know<br \/>\nichchAmi &#8211; I like.<br \/>\nthava pravruththim &#8211; your desired activities<br \/>\nnahi prajAnAmi &#8211; I don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nmE &#8211; for me<br \/>\nAkhyAhi\u00a0 &#8211; please tell me<br \/>\nthE nama: asthu &#8211; let my salutations belong to you<br \/>\nprasIdha &#8211; be merciful<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Oh best among dhEvathAs, who are having very fierce form! What do you desire to do? I would like to know about you who are the original cause. I don&#8217;t understand your desired activities. Please telle me those. Let my salutations belong to you. Be Merciful.<\/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;(Pray)rehearse, who You are, this dreadful Form? salutation to You, O Deva-chief!, be merciful; You, the Primitive, I wish well to learn. Your work I do not indeed understand.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You manifested Yourself in this Awful Form, in order to show me Your Sovereign Power, \u2014limitless\u2014 in response to my prayer to see You thus, viz: \u2018Do You reveal Yourself, in all, to me, (<em>Gi<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-4-original\/\">xi-4<\/a>) I desire to know You as to who You are, of this fearful shape; and what You did intend to do? For I know not what Your intentions<br \/>\nmay be. Explain this to me. O Lord of all (<em>Devavara<\/em>)! bestow Your grace. Say with what object, and for what purpose You did appear in this manner? And then, pray put on Your pleasing Form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questioned as to why the Blessed Lord, the Charioteer of Arjuna, while, out of love for His <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/protege\">proteges<\/a>, he undertook to exhibit His Kosmic glory, He yet assumed the Awful Form, He significantly delivered Himself this-wise;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018It is to put in your mind that no effort on your part is expected to put an end to this world of kings, \u2014those, to commence with, that are ranged in Dh\u1e5bitar\u0101shtra\u2019s faction\u2014, but I am prepared to do this even before you; and to remind you of this is the assumption by Me of this terrific Form.\u2019 The Blessed Lord continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-32\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 11 verse 32<\/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 noreferrer\">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 11 &lt;&lt; Chapter 11 verse 30 SlOkam \u2013 Original AkhyAhi mE kO bhavAn ugrarUpO namO\u2019sthu thE dhEvavara prasIdha | vigyAthum ichchAmi bhavantham Adhyam na hi prajAnAmi thava prav\u1e5buththim || word-by-word meaning dhEvavara &#8211; Oh best among dhEvathAs! ugra rUpa bhavAn &#8211; you who are &#8230; <a title=\"11.31 AkhyAhi mE kO bhavAn ugrarUpO\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/11-31\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 11.31 AkhyAhi mE kO bhavAn ugrarUpO\">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":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-11","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","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=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}