Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.36, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 2 of Chapter 5 (The Liberation of Bakasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

उत्कल उवाच
न जाने ते तपश्-चण्डं
मुने मां पाहि जाजले साधूनां भवतां सङ्गं
मोक्ष-द्वारं परं विदुः

utkala uvāca
na jāne te tapaś-caṇḍaṃ
mune māṃ pāhi jājale sādhūnāṃ bhavatāṃ saṅgaṃ
mokṣa-dvāraṃ paraṃ viduḥ

utkalaḥ uvāca—Utkala said; na—not; jāne—I know; te—your; tapaś-caṇḍam—power of austerity; mune—O sage; mām—me; pāhi—protect; jājale—O Jājali; sādhūnām—of saints; bhavatām—of you; saṅgamassociation; mokṣato liberation; dvāram—the door; param—great; viduḥ—they know.

English translation of verse 2.5.36:

Utkala said: O sage, save me! I did not know the power of your austerities. (The wise) know that association with great saints like yourself is the great door to liberation.

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