Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.11.17, 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 4 of Chapter 11 (The Story of the Gopis That were Residents of Rama-vaikuntha, Shvetadvipa, Urdhva-vaikuntha, Ajita-pada, and Shri Lokacala) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

श्री-गोप्य ऊचुः
यदि जानासि योगिंस् त्वं
वार्तां काल-त्रयोद्भवाम्
किं वर्तते नो मनसि
वद तर्हि महा-मते

śrī-gopya ūcuḥ
yadi jānāsi yogiṃs tvaṃ
vārtāṃ kāla-trayodbhavām
kiṃ vartate no manasi
vada tarhi mahā-mate

śrī-gopya ūcuḥ—the gopīs said; yadi—if; jānāsi—You know; yogiṃḥ—O yogi; tvam—You; vārtām—news; kālatime; trayathree phases; udbhavām—manifested; kim—what?; vartate—is; naḥ—of us; manasiin the mind; vadaplease tell; tarhi—then; mahā-mate—O wise one.

English translation of verse 4.11.17:

Thw gopīs said: O wise yogī, if You know the past, present, and future, then please tell us one thing: What are we thinking at this moment?

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