Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.130, 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 13 (A Thousand Names of Lord Balarama) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).
Verse 8.13.130
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अस्वतन्त्रह् साधुमयह्
साधु-ग्रस्त-मना मनाक्
साधु-प्रियह् साधु-धनह्
साधु-ज्ञातिह् सुधा-घनह्
asvatantrah sādhumayah
sādhu-grasta-manā manāk
sādhu-priyah sādhu-dhanah
sādhu-jñātih sudhā-ghanah
He is not independent (asvatantra). He is dependent on His devotees (sādhumaya). His heart is rapt in thinking of His devotees (sādhu-grasta-manā).
He loves His devotees and they love Him (sādhu-priya). He is charitable to His devotees (sādhu-dhana). He is His devotees' kinsman (sādhu-jñāti). He is a monsoon cloud of nectar (sudhā-ghana).