Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.7.3, 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 4 of Chapter 7 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.7.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-दूत उवच
स्वयं परं ब्रह्म परः परेशः
परैर् अदृश्यः परिपूर्ण-देवः
यः पुण्य-सङ्घैः सततं हि दूरस्
तस्मै नमः सज्-जन-गोचरय
śrī-dūta uvaca
svayaṃ paraṃ brahma paraḥ pareśaḥ
parair adṛśyaḥ paripūrṇa-devaḥ
yaḥ puṇya-saṅghaiḥ satataṃ hi dūras
tasmai namaḥ saj-jana-gocaraya
śrī-dūta uvaca—the messenger said; svayam—personally; param—the Supreme; brahma—Brahman; paraḥ—the supreme; pareśaḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; paraiḥ—by the great souls; adṛśyaḥ—not seen; paripūrṇa-devaḥ—the perfect Lord; yaḥ—who; puṇya-saṅghaiḥ—by many pious deeds; satatam—again and again; hi—indeed; dūraḥ—far away; tasmai—to Him; namaḥ—obeisances; saj-jana-gocaraya—seen by the saintly devotees.
English translation of verse 4.7.3:
The messenger said: I offer my respectful obeisances to You, the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead, who are seen only by the saintly devotees, and who cannot be approcahed by performing even a great host of ordinary pious deeds.