SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 17<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 17 Verse 15<\/a><\/p>\n mana:prasAdha: saumyathvam maunam Athmavinigraha: |<\/em> mana: prasAdha: – Keeping the mind clear and free from anger etc Keeping the mind clear and free from anger etc, thinking about the well-being of others, controlling the speech through mind, restraining the mind from worldly matters and engaging it in the meditation of apt aspects, being without any thought other than AthmA are all said to be the penance of the mind.<\/p>\n ‘That is called Mental Austerity, which consists in good temper, benevolence, quietude, self-control, and purity of purpose.’<\/span><\/p>\n Mana\u1e25-pras\u0101da\u1e25<\/em> = Good-temper, or mind kept free of anger etc.,<\/span><\/p>\n Saumyatvam<\/em> = Benevolence, or mind filled with love for others\u2019 happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n Maunam<\/em> = Quietude, or by will restraining the function of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n \u0100tma-vinigraha\u1e25<\/em> = Self-control or fixing the mind or keeping the mind engaged in the (holy) objects of contemplation.<\/span><\/p>\n Bh\u0101va-sa\u1e43\u015buddhi\u1e25<\/em> = Purity of purpose = Absence of thoughts wandering away on subjects other than \u0101tma.<\/span><\/p>\n These constitute the Mental Tapas or Austerity of the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 17 Verse 17<\/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 17 << Chapter 17 Verse 15 SlOkam \u2013 Original mana:prasAdha: saumyathvam maunam Athmavinigraha: | bhAvasa\u1e41Sudhdhir ithyEthath thapO mAnasam uchyathE || word-by-word meaning mana: prasAdha: – Keeping the mind clear and free from anger etc saumyathvam – thinking about the well-being of others maunam – … 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-6582","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\/6582","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=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n bhAvasa\u1e41Sudhdhir ithyEthath thapO mAnasam uchyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nsaumyathvam – thinking about the well-being of others
\nmaunam – controlling the speech through mind
\nAthma vinigraha: – restraining the mind from worldly matters and engaging it in the meditation of apt aspects
\nbhAva samsudhdhi: – being without any thought other than AthmA
\nithi Ethath – all these
\nmAnasam thapa: – penance of the mind
\nuchyathE – said<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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