Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.19.15, 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 6 of Chapter 19 (In the First Fortress of Dvaraka, the Glories of Lila-sarovara, Hari-mandira, Jnana-tirtha, Krishna-kunda, Balabhadra-sarah, Ganesha-tirtha, Dana-sthala, and Maya-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

स मुक्तः स कृतार्थः स्याद्
यः पश्येद् धरि-मन्दिरम्
तत्-समो वैश्ण्ष्वो नास्ति
तीर्थं च तत्-समं न हि

sa muktaḥ sa kṛtārthaḥ syād
yaḥ paśyed dhari-mandiram
tat-samo vaiśṇṣvo nāsti
tīrthaṃ ca tat-samaṃ na hi

sa—he; muktaḥliberated; sa—he; kṛtārthaḥsuccessful; syāt—is; yaḥ—who; paśyet—sees; hari-mandiram—Lord Kṛṣṇa's palace; tat-samaḥ—equal to him; vaiśṇaṣaḥ— a devotee; na—not; astiis; tīrtham—a holy place; ca—and; tat- samamequal to him; na—not; hi—is.

English translation of verse 6.19.15:

A person who sees Lord Kṛṣṇa's palace becomes liberated. His life is a success.

No devotee is his equal. No holy place is his equal.

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