Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.15.71, 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 15 (Revelation of the Universal Form to Nanda’s Wife) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.15.71
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
राधा-कृष्णेति हे गोप
ये जपन्ति पुनः पुनः
चतुष्पदार्थं किं तेषां
साक्षात् कृष्णो ऽपि लभ्यते
śrī-nārada uvāca
rādhā-kṛṣṇeti he gopa
ye japanti punaḥ punaḥ
catuṣpadārthaṃ kiṃ teṣāṃ
sākṣāt kṛṣṇo 'pi labhyate
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; rādhā-kṛṣṇa—Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa; iti—thus; he gopa—O gopa; ye—who; japanti—chant; punaḥ punaḥ—again and again; catuṣpadārtham—the four goals of life; kim—what?; teṣām—of them; sākṣāt—directly; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; api—even; labhyate—is attained.
English translation of verse 1.15.71:
Śrī Nārada said: O gopa, they who again and again chant the names of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa attain Lord Kṛṣṇa directly. What are the four goals of life to them?