Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.18.13, 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 18 (The Names and Worship of Sri Yamuna) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

कामम् क्रोधम् तथा लोभम् मोहम् द्वेसम् विस्र्ज्य सः

kāmam krodham tathā lobham moham dvesam visrjya saḥ

भक्त्या परमया राजन् वर्तमानस् तु देचकः

bhaktyā paramayā rājan vartamānas tu decakaḥ

kāmamlust; krodham—anger; tathā—so; lobham—greed; moham—ilussion; dvesam—hatred; visrjyaabandoning; saḥ—he; bhaktyā—with devotion; paramayā—great; rājanO king; vartamānaḥ—staying; tu—indeed; decakaḥ -devotee.

English translation of verse 4.18.13:

O king, one should free oneself from lust, anger, bewilderment, and hatred, and with great devotion one should chant mantras.

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