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Chapter 18<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 18 Verse 54<\/a><\/p>\n bhakthyA mAm abhijAnAthi yAvAn yaS chAsmi thathvatha: |<\/em> ya: – me who is of such nature and attitude He who truly knows through (previously explained) parabhakthi me, who is of such nature and attitude, such qualities and wealth, knowing me truly through that paramabhakthi, subsequently attains me fully.<\/p>\n ‘By Love, does he full know, Who and What I am in truth; by it, after knowing Me in truth does he enter into Me.’<\/span><\/p>\n Who I am<\/em> = Who I am in essence, and by essential attributes; what I am<\/em> = What I am by manifested attributes and manifested glories of the Universe.<\/span><\/p>\n By Bhakti or Love, (i.e.,<\/em> the emotional part of man\u2019s nature -which constitutes the subjectivity of the heart- employed in seeking out God), of this kind, one finds Me out in My true-Self. This knowledge or finding Me out means the obtaining of the vision of Myself as I am in essence, in essential attributes, properties and glories (such as that which Arjuna saw, described in the Eleventh Lecture). After this Vision, is the \u2018entering\u2019 into Me, i.e.,<\/em> joining Me, borne<\/a> aloft by the same intense Love.<\/span><\/p>\n Tatah<\/em> = \u2018By it\u2019 means here thereby<\/em> (not there<\/em>) = by Bhakti, this constituting verily the Means by which the said \u2018entry\u2019 into Me, is in reality effected; this is testified to by what has been declared in the Stanza:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018But by Love, undivided, I am possible\u2019 (Gi:<\/em> XI-54<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n The fruition of such works as those of nitya<\/em> and naimittika<\/em>, \u2014performed with fruits therefor resigned, etc., performed as but modes of worshipping Paramapurusha\u2014, has now been told. That the same fruition attends the works of the k\u0101mya<\/em> kind -performed in the same manner\u2014, is now declared:<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 18 Verse 56<\/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 54 SlOkam \u2013 Original bhakthyA mAm abhijAnAthi yAvAn yaS chAsmi thathvatha: | thathO mAm thathvathO gyAthvA viSathE thadhanantharam || word-by-word meaning ya: – me who is of such nature and attitude yAvAn cha asmi – me who is of … 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-7055","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\/7055","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=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17030,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/17030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n thathO mAm thathvathO gyAthvA viSathE thadhanantharam ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nyAvAn cha asmi – me who is of such qualities and wealth
\nmAm – such me
\nbhakthyA – through (previously explained) parabhakthi
\nthathvatha: – truly
\nabhijAnAthi – knows;
\nmAm – me
\nthathvatha: gyAthvA – knowing truly
\nthadhanantharam – subsequently
\nthatha: – through\u00a0 paramabhakthi
\nmAm – me
\nviSathE – attains me fully<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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