{"id":4638,"date":"2017-07-13T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:17:44","slug":"12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12.2 mayyAveSya manO yE mAm"},"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\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/12-1\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 12 verse 1<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/12-2-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>SrI bhagavAn uvAcha<br \/>\n<em>mayyAveSya manO yE mAm nithyayukthA upAsathE |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> SradhdhayA parayOpEthAs thE mE yukthathamA mathA: ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>SrI bhagavAn uvAcha &#8211; bhagavAn spoke<br \/>\nmana: &#8211; their heart<br \/>\nmayi &#8211; in me<br \/>\nAvESya &#8211; placing<br \/>\nparayA SradhdhayA upEthA: &#8211; with great faith<br \/>\nnithya yukthA &#8211; desiring to be with me always<br \/>\nyE mAm upAsathE &#8211; who worship me (as the goal)<br \/>\nthE &#8211; they<br \/>\nmE yukthathamA mathA: &#8211; are considered by me as the best yOgis<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>bhagavAn spoke &#8211; Those who worship me (as the goal) placing their heart in me with great faith and desiring to be with me always, are considered by me as the best yOgis.<\/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;\">Rejoined the Blessed Lord thus:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Those who worship Me with minds fixed on Me, with intense faith imbued, and ever longing for communion, are those whom I count as My best-devoted.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>They fix their minds<\/em> (and hearts) in Me, or they let their minds enter into Me, inasmuch as I am to them the Dearest Object of love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018With intense faith (<em>\u015braddh\u0101<\/em>) imbued,\u2019 they eagerly long for eternal Divine Communion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who in this spirit \u2018worship Me\u2019 <em>i.e.<\/em>, the spirit in which the world of manas (mind and heart) is entirely occupied with thoughts of Me alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are My <em>best-devoted<\/em> (<em>yukta-tam\u0101\u1e25<\/em>)=those who would expeditiously and happily make towards their Goal \u2014Myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/12-3\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 12 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 12 &lt;&lt; Chapter 12 verse 1 SlOkam \u2013 Original SrI bhagavAn uvAcha mayyAveSya manO yE mAm nithyayukthA upAsathE | SradhdhayA parayOpEthAs thE mE yukthathamA mathA: || word-by-word meaning SrI bhagavAn uvAcha &#8211; bhagavAn spoke mana: &#8211; their heart mayi &#8211; in me AvESya &#8211; &#8230; <a title=\"12.2 mayyAveSya manO yE mAm\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/12-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 12.2 mayyAveSya manO yE mAm\">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":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-12","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","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=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15195,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/15195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}