SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 18<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 18 Verse 23<\/a><\/p>\n yath thu kAmEpsunA karma sAhankArENa vA puna: |<\/em> yath karma thu – The karma The karma which is performed with attachment to the results, with the prideful thinking “I am the doer” and with great efforts, is said to be rAjasa karma.<\/p>\n ‘But that Act is declared R\u0101jasa, which is Desire-aim<\/em> = aiming or desiring for fruit, and attended with egotism (aha\u1e47k\u0101ra<\/em>), or the self-love that one is the performer of the work; and also \u2018attended with great effort\u2019 or trouble. This kind of work is called R\u0101jasa, \u2014work which is done with the egotistic idea or conceit: \u2018What a work of enormous trouble this; it has by me<\/em> been done\u2019 etc.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 18 Verse 25<\/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 18 << Chapter 18 Verse 23 SlOkam \u2013 Original yath thu kAmEpsunA karma sAhankArENa vA puna: | kriyathE bahulAyAsam thadhrAjasam udhAhrutham || word-by-word meaning yath karma thu – The karma kAmEpsunA – with attachment to the results puna: sAhankArENa vA – with the prideful … 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-6844","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\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n kriyathE bahulAyAsam thadhrAjasam udhAhrutham ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nkAmEpsunA – with attachment to the results
\npuna: sAhankArENa vA – with the prideful thinking “I am the doer”
\nbahulAyAsam – with great efforts
\nkriyathE – performed
\nthath – that karma
\nrAjasam udhAhrutham – is said to be rAjasa karma<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
\ndone with desire-aim and egotism, and attended with great effort.’<\/span><\/p>\n
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