{"id":5422,"date":"2017-08-15T23:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:34:18","slug":"13-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-13\/","title":{"rendered":"13.13 sarvatha: pANipAdham thath"},"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\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-12\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 13 verse 12<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-13-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>sarvatha: pANipAdham thath sarvathO\u2019kshiSirOmukham |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> sarvatha: Sruthimal lOkE sarvam Avruthya thishtathi ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>thath &#8211; that pure AthmA<br \/>\nsarvatha: pANi pAdham &#8211; can perform all activities of hands and feet<br \/>\nsarvathOkshi SirO mukham &#8211; can perform all activities of eyes, head and face<br \/>\nsarvathaS Sruthi math &#8211; can perform all activities of ears everywhere<br \/>\nlOkE &#8211; in the world<br \/>\nsarvam &#8211; all entities<br \/>\nAvruthya thishtathi &#8211; pervading<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>That pure AthmA can perform all activities of hands and feet, eyes, head and face and ears everywhere; it is pervading all entities in the world.<\/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;Everywhere hands and feet, that (kshetraj\u00f1a, is) ; eyes, heads and faces everywhere, and all-hearing; abides in the world encompassing all.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Everywhere hands and feet, that<\/em>= The pure soul-nature is capable of doing everywhere what hands and feet do (in the embodied state). Similarly, it is capable of performing the functions of seeing, hearing etc (without the physical organs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That Para-brahm, \u2014albeit possessing no hands, feet etc., is yet capable of performing the functions of such members,\u2014 is declared by such \u015aruti passages as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Handless, footless, He fast moves and grasps; eyeless, He sees; earless, He hears etc. \u2019[2.<br \/>\n<em>\u015avet: Up:<\/em> III-19, &#8216;Ap\u0101\u1e47ip\u0101do javano grih\u012bta etc.&#8217; Vide also <em>Tait: N\u0101r\u0101:<\/em> I-12.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That pratyag\u0101tma (soul) also, in its pure nature, and as co-essential with Para-brahm, has this capacity of performing functions without organs, is a clear conclusion from the \u015aruti, when it declares:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Then the wise (soul), casting off merit and demerit, and become purified, attains transcendent equality (with Brahm).\u2019[3. <em>Mu\u1e47\u1e0d: Up:<\/em> &#8216;Tath\u0101 vidv\u0101 pu\u1e47ya-p\u0101pe vidh\u016bya nira\u00f1jana\u1e25paramam s\u0101myam upaiti.&#8217;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also in the Gita; itself the Stanza further occurs: \u2018Embracing this knowledge, whoso attain to My standard of righteousness\u2019 etc. (<em>G\u012b:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/14-2-original\/\">XIV-2<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>And that (or this kshetraj\u00f1a), abides in the world encompassing all:<\/em> means that soul pervades all things in the world without exception; for pure soul-nature has no limitations of space etc., and therefore it is all-pervasive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-14\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 13 verse 14<\/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.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 13 &lt;&lt; Chapter 13 verse 12 SlOkam \u2013 Original sarvatha: pANipAdham thath sarvathO\u2019kshiSirOmukham | sarvatha: Sruthimal lOkE sarvam Avruthya thishtathi || word-by-word meaning thath &#8211; that pure AthmA sarvatha: pANi pAdham &#8211; can perform all activities of hands and feet sarvathOkshi SirO mukham &#8211; &#8230; <a title=\"13.13 sarvatha: pANipAdham thath\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-13\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 13.13 sarvatha: pANipAdham thath\">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":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-13","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","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=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}