Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.22, 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 4 (Description of Questions About the Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-भगवान् उवाच
श्रुत्वैतद् दर्शयाम् आस
स्वं लोकं प्रकृतेः परम्
केवलानुभवानन्द-
मात्रम् अक्षरम् अव्ययम्

śrī-bhagavān uvāca
śrutvaitad darśayām āsa
svaṃ lokaṃ prakṛteḥ param
kevalānubhavānanda-
mātram akṣaram avyayam

śrī-bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; śrutvāhaving heard; etat—this; darśayām āsa—He showed; svam—His own; lokam—realm; prakṛteḥ—the material world; param—beyond; kevalaonly; anubhavaexperience; ānandabliss; mātram—only; akṣaram—changeless; avyayam—indestructible.

English translation of verse 1.4.22:

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Hearing this, the Lord showed them His own abode, where there is only bliss and there are neither decay nor death, . . .

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