{"id":5493,"date":"2017-08-20T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2017-08-20T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T01:41:00","slug":"13-17-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-17-original\/","title":{"rendered":"13.17 jyoti\u1e63\u0101m api taj jyotis (Original)"},"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-original\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 13<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-16-original\/\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 13 verse 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">jyoti\u1e63\u0101m api taj jyotis<br \/>\ntamasa\u1e25 param ucyate<br \/>\nj\u00f1\u0101na\u1e41 j\u00f1eya\u1e41 j\u00f1\u0101na-gamya\u1e41<br \/>\nh\u1e5bdi sarvasya vi\u1e63\u1e6dhitam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;It is the light even of lights and is said to be beyond darkness (<em>tamas<\/em>); wisdom-knowable; wisdom-gainable; centred in every heart.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Lights<\/em> are such as those of sun, fire, gem etc. Light of these lights means that which illuminates these or that by the light of which these lights are seen, meaning light of knowledge before which all the luminaries, the sun etc, shine. As for lamp-light and the rest, they but dispel the darkness intervening between the sense of (sight) and its object; the illuminating power of these lights is but limited to such work. (Not so the light of the soul).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is said to be beyond darkness (tamas)<\/em>. The term <em>tamas<\/em> is designatory of the subtle condition of prak\u1e5biti (=matter). It (soul) transcends even this subtle principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence j\u00f1\u0101nam-jneyam = Comprehensible by intellect or knowledge) as that which is characterized by intelligence (or consciousness=<em>jn\u0101n\u0101k\u0101ra<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <em>jn\u0101na gamyam<\/em>=wisdom-gainable or that what can be reached by wisdom embodied in the qualities: \u2018Reverence&#8217; etc., or by qualities which constitute knowledge by means of which to gain wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Centred in every heart<\/em>= Present or seated in the hearts of all creatures, man etc. in a pronounced form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-18-original\/\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 13 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.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 16 Simple jyoti\u1e63\u0101m api taj jyotis tamasa\u1e25 param ucyate j\u00f1\u0101na\u1e41 j\u00f1eya\u1e41 j\u00f1\u0101na-gamya\u1e41 h\u1e5bdi sarvasya vi\u1e63\u1e6dhitam &#8216;It is the light even of lights and is said to be beyond darkness (tamas); wisdom-knowable; wisdom-gainable; centred in every heart.&#8217; Lights are such &#8230; <a title=\"13.17 jyoti\u1e63\u0101m api taj jyotis (Original)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13-17-original\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 13.17 jyoti\u1e63\u0101m api taj jyotis (Original)\">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":[6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-13","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","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=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}