Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.1.32, 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 1 of Chapter 1 (Description of Shri-Krishna’s Glories) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-कृष्ण-दासस्य च दास-दासः
कदा भवेयं मनसार्द्र-चित्तः
यो दुर्लभो देव-वरैः परात्मा
स मे कथं गोचर आदि-देवः

śrī-kṛṣṇa-dāsasya ca dāsa-dāsaḥ
kadā bhaveyaṃ manasārdra-cittaḥ
yo durlabho deva-varaiḥ parātmā
sa me kathaṃ gocara ādi-devaḥ

śrī-kṛṣṇaof Śrī Kṛṣṇa; dāsasya—of the servant; ca—and; dāsaof the servant; dāsaḥthe servant; kadāwhen?; bhaveyam—will I become; manasawith thoughts; ardramelting; cittaḥhis heart; yaḥ—a person who; durlabhaḥrare; deva-varaiḥ—by the best of demigods; parātmāthe Supreme Person; saḥ—He; me—of me; katham—whether?; gocare—in the range of perception; ādi—the original; devaḥLord.

English translation of verse 1.1.32:

When, my heart melting with love, will I think "I am the servant of the servants of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's servants?" Will the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whom even the greatest demigods cannot attain, appear before me?

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