Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.37, 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 2 of Chapter 5 (The Liberation of Bakasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.5.37
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मित्रे शत्रौ समा माने
ऽपमाने हेम-लोष्टयोः
सुखे दुःख-समा ये वै
त्वादृशाः साधवश् च ते
mitre śatrau samā māne
'pamāne hema-loṣṭayoḥ
sukhe duḥkha-samā ye vai
tvādṛśāḥ sādhavaś ca te
mitre—friend; śatrau—and enemy; samā—the same; māne—honor; apamāne—and dishonor; hema—gold; loṣṭayoḥ—and a clod of earth; sukhe—in happiness; duḥkha—and unhappiness; samā—the same; ye—who; vai—indeed; tvādṛśāḥ—like you; sādhavaḥ—saints; ca—and; te—they.
English translation of verse 2.5.37:
Saints like yourself see friends and enemies equally. They see that honor and dishonor, gold and a clod of earth, and happiness and unhappiness are all the same.