Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.11.14, 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 11 (The Story of the Gopis That were Residents of Rama-vaikuntha, Shvetadvipa, Urdhva-vaikuntha, Ajita-pada, and Shri Lokacala) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

श्री-सिद्ध उवाच
योगेश्वरो ऽहं मे वासः
सदा मान-सरोवरे
नाम्ना स्वयम्प्रकाशो ऽहं
निरन्नः स्व-बलात् सदा

śrī-siddha uvāca
yogeśvaro 'haṃ me vāsaḥ
sadā māna-sarovare
nāmnā svayamprakāśo 'haṃ
nirannaḥ sva-balāt sadā

śrī-siddha uvāca—the perfect yogi said; yogeśvaraḥa master of yoga; aham—I; me—of Me; vāsaḥ—the residence; sadāalways; māna-sarovare—in Mana-sarovara; nāmnā—by name; svayamprakāśaḥ—Svayamprakāśa; aham—I; nirannaḥ—fasting; sva-balāt—by My own power; sadā—always.

English translation of verse 4.11.14:

The perfect yogī said: I am a master of yoga. I always stay at Māna-sarovara. My name is Svayamprakāśa. I never eat. My own mystic power keeps Me alive.

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