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 ...

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

भगवन् केन मन्त्रेण संसारोत्तरणं नृणाम्
तन् मयाचक्षस्व तेन सर्व-लोक-हितं यतः

bhagavan kena mantreṇa saṃsārottaraṇaṃ nṛṇām
tan mayācakṣasva tena sarva-loka-hitaṃ yataḥ

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

bhagavanO Lord; kena—by what?; mantreṇa—mantra; saṃsārathe world of repeated birth and death; uttaraṇam—crossing over; nṛṇām—of the people; tat—that; mayāby me; ācakṣasva—please tell; tena—by that; sarva-loka- hitam—the benefit of all the worlds; yataḥ—from which.

English translation of verse:

O Lord, what mantra will carry the people from this world of birth and death? So everyone may benefit, please tell it to me.

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