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Chapter 18<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 18 Verse 33<\/a><\/p>\n yayA thu dharmakAmArthAn dh\u1e5buthyA dhArayathE\u2019rjuna |<\/em> pArtha arjuna – Oh arjuna, son of kunthI! Oh arjuna, son of kunthI! That dhruthi (steadiness) with which one who desires for results (other than mOksham) with great attachment, sustains the acts which are means for the three purushArthams viz dharma, artha and kAma, is caused by rajO guNam.<\/p>\n ‘That is R\u0101jasa-Purpose, P\u0101rtha! by which, \u2014 from motives of attachment and fruit\u2014, Dharma, pleasures and wealth are maintained.’<\/span><\/p>\n That is R\u0101jasa-Purpose or Will by which a person, who, longing for fruit, and who, on account of much attachment, \u2014maintains, feeds or keeps alive such desires as virtue (dharma<\/em>), pleasures (k\u0101ma<\/em>), and wealth (artha<\/em>) is the paraphrase.<\/span><\/p>\n Dharma<\/em>, K\u0101ma<\/em> and Artha<\/em>[1. Four-fold aspirations of man, dharma<\/em> (meritorious work done here carrying with it the virtue of bringing future happiness, mundane or otherwise), artha<\/em> (riches and general prosperity), k\u0101ma<\/em> (enjoyments), moksha<\/em> (deliverance or Salvation).] figuratively stand for the means by which those ambitions are achieved, viz., the powers of mind, life, and the senses.<\/span><\/p>\n Fruit<\/em>, aimed at, is only the fruit of these, viz: Dharma, K\u0101ma and Artha<\/em> (not Moksha of Stanza 33<\/a><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n So, that Purpose or Will is called R\u0101jasa, which maintains or sustains the energies of the mind, life and the senses directing themselves to the achieval of the ends, viz: Dharma, K\u0101ma and Artha<\/em>.[2. Four-fold aspirations of man, dharma<\/em> (meritorious work done here carrying with it the virtue of bringing future happiness, mundane or otherwise), artha<\/em> (riches and general prosperity), k\u0101ma<\/em> (enjoyments), moksha<\/em> (deliverance or Salvation).]<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 18 Verse 35<\/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 33 SlOkam \u2013 Original yayA thu dharmakAmArthAn dh\u1e5buthyA dhArayathE\u2019rjuna | prasangEna palAkAnkshI dh\u1e5buthi: sA pArtha rAjasI || word-by-word meaning pArtha arjuna – Oh arjuna, son of kunthI! palAkAnkshI – one who desires for results (other than mOksham) prasangEna – … 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-6918","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\/6918","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=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n prasangEna palAkAnkshI dh\u1e5buthi: sA pArtha rAjasI ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\npalAkAnkshI – one who desires for results (other than mOksham)
\nprasangEna – with great attachment
\ndharma kAma arthAn – acts which are means for the three purushArthams viz dharma, artha and kAma
\nyayA thu dhruthyA – with that dhruthi (steadiness)
\ndhArayathE – sustains
\nsA dhruthi: – that steadiness
\nrAjasi – is caused by rajO guNam<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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