{"id":7090,"date":"2018-05-19T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:53:36","slug":"18-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-59\/","title":{"rendered":"18.59 yadhyahankAram ASrithya"},"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\/18-58\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 18 Verse 58<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-59-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>yadhyahankAram ASrithya na yOthsya ithi manyasE |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> mithyaisha vyavasAyas thE prakruthis thvAm niyOkshyathi ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>ahankAram ASrithya &#8211; Considering &#8220;I can myself determine good and bad&#8221; (foregoing my ordainment)<br \/>\nna yOthsy<em>a<\/em> ithi &#8211; saying &#8220;I won&#8217;t fight&#8221;<br \/>\nyadhi manyasE &#8211; if you think<br \/>\nEsha: thE vyavasAya: &#8211; this resolve in you<br \/>\nmithyA &#8211; will also become false;<\/p>\n<p>(because)<br \/>\nprakruthi: &#8211; your body which is an effect of primordial matter<br \/>\nthvAm &#8211; you<br \/>\nniyOshyathi &#8211; will lead you to fight.<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>If you think &#8220;I won&#8217;t fight&#8221;, considering &#8220;I can myself determine good and bad&#8221; (foregoing my ordainment), this resolve in you will also become false; your body which is an effect of primordial matter will lead you to fight [anyway].<\/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;If by embracing egotism, you resolve: \u2018I<br \/>\nwill not fight,\u2019 that resolve of yours shall be vain; (for) nature will impel you.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Egotism<\/em> (aha\u1e45k\u0101ra)=The notion of self-ness or freedom in deciding for oneself what is good and what is bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If by assuming this independence, you should determine to yourself: \u2018I will not fight\u2019, in disregard of My Mandate (to the contrary), your independent resolve shall prove to be a failure, inasmuch as your nature (<em>prak\u1e5biti<\/em>) will compel you to the combat; for your nature will govern you usurping My place, because you own Me not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same (subject) is amplified:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-60\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 18 Verse 60<\/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 58 SlOkam \u2013 Original yadhyahankAram ASrithya na yOthsya ithi manyasE | mithyaisha vyavasAyas thE prakruthis thvAm niyOkshyathi || word-by-word meaning ahankAram ASrithya &#8211; Considering &#8220;I can myself determine good and bad&#8221; (foregoing my ordainment) na yOthsya ithi &#8211; saying &#8230; <a title=\"18.59 yadhyahankAram ASrithya\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/18-59\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 18.59 yadhyahankAram ASrithya\">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-7090","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\/7090","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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}