Sanatkumara Samhita
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The is is the english translation of the Sanatkumara Samhita. Sanatkumara in Sanskrit means “eternal youth”. Sage Sanatkumara was one of the Four Kumaras, the four Manasputras (mind-born-sons) or spiritual sons of Brahma. Sanatkumara is also the author of the Sanatkumara Samhita, which is part of the Shiva Purana, and has 59 chapters. Alternative ...
verse 6
Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:
अनन्य-मनसा नित्यं कृष्ण-ध्यान-परेण च
त्रि-काल-स्नान-निरतः शौचाचार-परायणःananya-manasā nityaṃ kṛṣṇa-dhyāna-pareṇa ca
tri-kāla-snāna-nirataḥ śaucācāra-parāyaṇaḥ
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
ananya—without anything else; manasā—with the mind; nityam—always; kṛṣṇa-dhyāna-pareṇa—devoted to meditating on Lord Kṛṣṇa; ca—and; tri-kāla—three times; snāna—bathing; nirataḥ—engaged; śaucācāra-parāyaṇaḥ—devoted to cleanliness.
English translation of verse:
Without thinking of anything else, I always meditated on Lord Kṛṣṇa. I bathed thrice daily. I was pure in all I did.