SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 15<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 15 verse 18<\/a><\/p>\n yO mAm Evam asammUdO jAnAthi purushOththamam |<\/em> bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha clan! Oh descendant of bharatha clan! One who knows me without any confusion in this manner as the one who is greater than bound souls and liberated souls for many reasons, knows all the paths to reach me. He remains the one who has served me in all paths of devotion etc.<\/p>\n ‘Thus, whoso wise (man), Bh\u0101rata! knows Me as the Purushottama, knows all and serves Me in every manner.’<\/span><\/p>\n Whoso, grown wise, knows Me as the Purushottama described above: viz<\/em>; as the Distinct from the Kshara and the Akshara souls; as the Infinite; as Him Who is characterized as the Pervader, Sustainer, Sovereign etc.<\/span><\/p>\n He knows all<\/em>: Whatever there is that is to be known as the means by which to attain Me, he knows all that.<\/span><\/p>\n He serves Me in every manner<\/em>=Whatever ways of service, in order to attain to Me, have been prescribed, he serves Me by all those ways of service, (worship).<\/span><\/p>\n By knowing Me as such (viz:<\/em> Purushottama), he may assure himself of My love (for him) such as may be gainable by all other kinds of service (or worship) relating to Me (laid down in the \u015a\u0101stras).<\/span><\/p>\n This aforesaid Purushottama-knowledge is now eulogised:<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 15 Verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 15 << Chapter 15 verse 18 SlOkam \u2013 Original yO mAm Evam asammUdO jAnAthi purushOththamam | sa sarvavidh bhajathi mAm sarvabhAvEna bhAratha || word-by-word meaning bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha clan! ya: – one Evam – in this manner purushOththamam – as the … 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":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-15","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","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=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n sa sarvavidh bhajathi mAm sarvabhAvEna bhAratha ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nya: – one
\nEvam – in this manner
\npurushOththamam – as the one who is greater than bound souls and liberated souls for many reasons
\nmAm – me
\nasammUda: – without any confusion
\njAnAthi – knows
\nsa: sarvavith – he knows all the paths to reach me.
\nmAm – me
\nsarva bhAvEna bhajathi – he remains the one who has served in all paths of devotion etc.<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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