{"id":6667,"date":"2018-03-15T23:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2025-03-21T03:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:34:31","slug":"18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-3\/","title":{"rendered":"18.3 thyAjyam dhOshavadhithyEkE"},"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\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-2\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 18 Verse 2<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-3-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>thyAjyam dhOshavadhithyEkE karma prAhur manIshiNa: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yagyadhAnathapa:karma na thyAjyam ithi chAparE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>EkE manIshiNa: &#8211; Some learned persons<br \/>\ndhOshavath karma &#8211; karmas such as yagya (sacrifice), which are with defects<br \/>\nthyAjyam &#8211; can be given up (by mumukshus (liberation seekers))<br \/>\nithi prAhu: &#8211; said;<br \/>\naparE cha (manIshiNa:) &#8211; Some other learned persons<br \/>\nyagya dhAna thapa: karma &#8211; karmas such as yagya (sacrifice), dhAna (charity), thapa (penance)<br \/>\nna thyAjyam &#8211; cannot be given up (even by mumukshus)<br \/>\nithi (prAhu:) &#8211; said.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Some learned persons said &#8220;karmas such as yagya (sacrifice), which are with defects, can be given up (by mumukshus (liberation seekers)); some other learned persons said &#8220;karmas such as yagya (sacrifice), dhAna (charity), thapa (penance) cannot be given up (even by mumukshus)&#8221;.<\/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;Some philosophers declare that work should be abandoned as evil; and others that works, \u2014Yaj\u00f1a, D\u0101na and Tapas\u2014 should not be abandoned.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some philosophers like Kapila[1. The Father of S\u0101nkhya Philosophy.], and others also, who are Vaidikas, but who still follow Kapila, assert that as all works such as Yaj\u00f1a, etc., are prolific of evil, such as desire etc., since they conduce to bondage, they are fit to be abandoned by the Moksha-aspirant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other learned men say they are not to be given up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-4\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 18 Verse 4<\/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 18 &lt;&lt; Chapter 18 Verse 2 SlOkam \u2013 Original thyAjyam dhOshavadhithyEkE karma prAhur manIshiNa: | yagyadhAnathapa:karma na thyAjyam ithi chAparE || word-by-word meaning EkE manIshiNa: &#8211; Some learned persons dhOshavath karma &#8211; karmas such as yagya (sacrifice), which are with defects thyAjyam &#8211; can &#8230; <a title=\"18.3 thyAjyam dhOshavadhithyEkE\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-3\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 18.3 thyAjyam dhOshavadhithyEkE\">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":[11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-18","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","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=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16507,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/16507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}