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Chapter 17<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 17 Verse 18<\/a><\/p>\n mUdagrAhENAthmanO yath pIdayA kriyathE thapa: |<\/em> mUdagrAhENa – due to the staunch desire of foolish persons The penance which is practiced by foolish persons due to their staunch desire, to torture the self and others, is said to be caused by thamO guNam (ignorance).<\/p>\n ‘That is declared as T\u0101masa-Tapas which by the witless willed, is done to torture self, or others to hurt.’<\/span><\/p>\n M\u016bdh\u0101\u1e25 = the witless or stupid. M\u016bdha-gr\u0101he\u1e47a<\/em> = By the will or resolve of the stupid. Whatever Tapas is done by such foolish resolve, regardless of one\u2019s own capacity etc., (to carry it out), and to torture himself, or for causing hurt to others, is called T\u0101masa.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 17 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 17 << Chapter 17 Verse 18 SlOkam \u2013 Original mUdagrAhENAthmanO yath pIdayA kriyathE thapa: | parasyothsAdhanArtham vA thath thAmasam udhAhrutham || word-by-word meaning mUdagrAhENa – due to the staunch desire of foolish persons Athmana: pIdayA –\u00a0 to torture the self parasya uthsAdhanArtham vA – … 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-6594","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\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16447,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/16447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n parasyothsAdhanArtham vA thath thAmasam udhAhrutham ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nAthmana: pIdayA –\u00a0 to torture the self
\nparasya uthsAdhanArtham vA – to torture others
\nyath thapa: kriyathE – the penance which is practiced
\nthath – that penance
\nthAmasam udhAhrutham – is said to be caused by thamO guNam (ignorance)<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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