Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.14, 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 5 of Chapter 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

करिष्यामि हरेर् भक्तिं
तत्-कीर्तन-समन्वितम्
त्वम् अपि सृष्टि-रचनं
त्यज दुःखातुरो भृशम्

kariṣyāmi harer bhaktiṃ
tat-kīrtana-samanvitam
tvam api sṛṣṭi-racanaṃ
tyaja duḥkhāturo bhṛśam

kariṣyāmi—I will create; hareḥfor Lord Kṛṣṇa; bhaktim—devotion; tat-kīrtana-samanvitam—chanting His glories; tvam—You; api—even; sṛṣṭi-racanam—the creation of children; tyaja—abandon; duḥkhāturaḥ—filled with sufferings; bhṛśam—greatly.

English translation of verse 5.21.14:

I will create devotion for Lord Kṛṣṇa and songs about His glories. You should give up the creation of children, which brings only sufferings.

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