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 ...

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

अनन्य-मनसा नित्यं कृष्ण-ध्यान-परेण च
त्रि-काल-स्नान-निरतः शौचाचार-परायणः

ananya-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-kālathree times; snānabathing; 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.

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