Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.39, 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).

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

जाजले मुनि-शार्दूल
त्रैवर्ग्यं किम् अभूज् जनैः
साधूनां कृपया साक्षात्
पूर्णं ब्रह्मापि लभ्यते

jājale muni-śārdūla
traivargyaṃ kim abhūj janaiḥ
sādhūnāṃ kṛpayā sākṣāt
pūrṇaṃ brahmāpi labhyate

jājale—O Jājali; muni-śārdūlaO tiger of sages; traivargyam—the three goals of life; kim—what?; abhūt—become; janaiḥ—by men; sādhūnām—of sdaints; kṛpayā—by the mercy; sākṣātdirectly; pūrṇam—the full; brahmaSupreme; api—even; labhyate—is attained.

English translation of verse 2.5.39:

O Jājali, O tiger of sages, what is the use of the three goals of life? By the mercy of great saints one can attain the Supreme Brahman.

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