{"id":6562,"date":"2018-02-08T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:23:19","slug":"17-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/17-12\/","title":{"rendered":"17.12 abhisandhAya thu palam"},"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\/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 17<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/17-11\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 17 Verse 11<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/17-12-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>abhisandhAya thu palam dhambhArtham api chaiva ya: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ijyathE bharathaSrEshta tham yagyam vidhdhi rAjasam ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>bharatha SrEshta &#8211; Oh best among the descendants of bharatha!<br \/>\npalam abhisandhAya thu &#8211; with the desire for material benefits<br \/>\ndhambhArtham api cha Eva &#8211; only for show<br \/>\nya: ijyathE &#8211; the yagya which is performed<br \/>\ntham yagyam &#8211; that yagya<br \/>\nrAjasam vidhdhi &#8211; know it as rAjasa yagya (sacrifice in the mode of passion)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Oh best among the descendants of bharatha! The yagya which is performed with the desire for material benefits and only for show, know that as rAjasa yagya (sacrifice in the mode of passion).<\/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;But that Yaj\u00f1a, know, Bharata-Chief! is R\u0101jasa, which with an aim for fruit and for display\u2014, one performs.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know that Yaj\u00f1a to be of the Rajas-character, which is done for the sake of fruit, and which is vitiated further by the desire for notoriety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/17-13\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 17 Verse 13<\/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 17 &lt;&lt; Chapter 17 Verse 11 SlOkam \u2013 Original abhisandhAya thu palam dhambhArtham api chaiva ya: | ijyathE bharathaSrEshta tham yagyam vidhdhi rAjasam || word-by-word meaning bharatha SrEshta &#8211; Oh best among the descendants of bharatha! palam abhisandhAya thu &#8211; with the desire for &#8230; <a title=\"17.12 abhisandhAya thu palam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/17-12\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 17.12 abhisandhAya thu palam\">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":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-17","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","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=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}