Sanatkumara Samhita
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The is is the english translation of the Sanatkumara Samhita. Sanatkumara in Sanskrit means “eternal youth”. Sage Sanatkumara was one of the Four Kumaras, the four Manasputras (mind-born-sons) or spiritual sons of Brahma. Sanatkumara is also the author of the Sanatkumara Samhita, which is part of the Shiva Purana, and has 59 chapters. Alternative ...
verse 11
Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:
जीव-हीनो यथा देहः सर्व-कर्मसु न क्षमः
पुरश्चरण-हीनो हि तथा मन्त्र-प्रकीर्तितःjīva-hīno yathā dehaḥ sarva-karmasu na kṣamaḥ
puraścaraṇa-hīno hi tathā mantra-prakīrtitaḥ
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
jīva—life; hīnaḥ—without; yathā—as; dehaḥ—a body; sarva- karmasu—in all activities; na—not; kṣamaḥ—able; puraścaraṇa—purascarana; hīnaḥ—without; hi—indeed; tathā—so; mantra- prakīrtitaḥ—chanting mantras.
English translation of verse:
As a lifeless body cannot act, so a person who has not performed puraścaraṇa cannot chant mantras.