{"id":6476,"date":"2018-01-02T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:57:53","slug":"16-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/16-20\/","title":{"rendered":"16.20 AsurIm yOnim ApannA"},"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\/16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/16-19\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 16 Verse 19<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/16-20-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>AsurIm yOnim ApannA mUdA janmani janmani |<\/em><br \/>\n<em>mAm aprApyaiva kaunthEya thathO yAntyadhamAm gathim ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>kaunthEya &#8211; Oh son of kunthI!<br \/>\nAsurIm yOnim ApannA: &#8211; (as explained in previous SlOkam) these people, having attained demoniac births<br \/>\njanmani janmani &#8211; in subsequent births<br \/>\nmUdA &#8211; having nurtured with misunderstanding about me<br \/>\nmAm aprApya &#8211; without attaining true knowledge about me<br \/>\nthatha: &#8211; than those [lowly] births<br \/>\nadhamAm gathim yAnthi &#8211; attain lower states<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Oh son of kunthI! These people, having attained demoniac births (as explained in previous SlOkam), in subsequent births, having nurtured with misunderstanding about me, without attaining true knowledge about me, attain lower states than those [lowly] births.<\/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;Entering wombs demoniac, in error spawning from birth to birth, never (do they) find Me, Kaunteya! but drag themselves down the Nether Path.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Demoniac wombs<\/em> = Such incarnate existences as are opposed to affinity for Me (=<em>\u0101nuk\u016blya<\/em> or harmony). Again and again do they spawn in such wombs, and their error or illusion or distorted understanding increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Never find Me<\/em> = Never attain to the wisdom that Bhagav\u0101n (God) really does exist, \u2014the all-Lord, V\u0101sudeva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From such births, they slip further and further down the Nether Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The root-cause by which these Non-divine natures lose their souls, is now stated :\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/16-21\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 16 Verse 21<\/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 16 &lt;&lt; Chapter 16 Verse 19 SlOkam \u2013 Original AsurIm yOnim ApannA mUdA janmani janmani | mAm aprApyaiva kaunthEya thathO yAntyadhamAm gathim || word-by-word meaning kaunthEya &#8211; Oh son of kunthI! AsurIm yOnim ApannA: &#8211; (as explained in previous SlOkam) these people, having attained &#8230; <a title=\"16.20 AsurIm yOnim ApannA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/16-20\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 16.20 AsurIm yOnim ApannA\">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":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-16","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","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=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16295,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/16295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}