Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.9.4, 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 3 of Chapter 9 (The Birth of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.9.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अनादिर् आत्मा पुरुषो
निर्गुणः प्रकृतेः परः
परिपूर्णतमः साक्षाच्
छ्री-कृष्णो भगवान् प्रभुः
anādir ātmā puruṣo
nirguṇaḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ
paripūrṇatamaḥ sākṣāc
chrī-kṛṣṇo bhagavān prabhuḥ
anādiḥ—beginningless; ātmā—self; puruṣaḥ—person; nirguṇaḥ—free from the material modes of nature; prakṛteḥ—matter; paraḥ—above; paripūrṇatamaḥ—perfect and complete; sākṣāt—directly; śrī-kṛṣṇaḥ—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; bhagavān—the Lord; prabhuḥ—Himself.
English translation of verse 3.9.4:
Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord. He is a person. He has no beginning. He is perfect and complete. He is the master of all opulences. He is beyond the modes of nature. He is above the realm of matter.