Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 8.10.12, 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 8 of Chapter 10 (The Paddhati and Patala of Lord Balarama) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).
Verse 8.10.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्षौमाम्बरो भूमि-शायी
भूत्वा पायस-भोजनह्
एवं निर्जित-षड्-वर्गो
भवेद् एकाग्र-मानसह्
kṣaumāmbaro bhūmi-śāyī
bhūtvā pāyasa-bhojanah
evaṃ nirjita-ṣaḍ-vargo
bhaved ekāgra-mānasah
kṣaumāmbarah—wearing simple cotton clothing; bhūmi-śāyī—sleeping on the ground; bhūtvā—becoming; pāyasa-bhojanah—eating milk; evam—thus; nirjita-ṣaḍ-vargah—controlling the sex material tendencies; bhavet—should become; ekāgra-mānasah—meditating with single-pointed concentration.
English translation of verse 8.10.12:
Wearing simple cotton clothing, sleeping on the ground, and fasting from all but milk, one may conquer the six material tendencies and meditate with single-pointed concentration.