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 15
Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:
पुत्र-दार-रत नित्यं हरि-भक्ति-विवर्जिताः
ईदृशाश् च कथं साध्याः कृष्ण-मन्त्राः सु-दुर्लभाःputra-dāra-rata nityaṃ hari-bhakti-vivarjitāḥ
īdṛśāś ca kathaṃ sādhyāḥ kṛṣṇa-mantrāḥ su-durlabhāḥ
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
putra-dāra-ratā—devoted to wife and children; nityam—always; hari-bhakti-vivarjitāḥ—without devotion to Lord Hari; īdṛśāḥ—like this; ca—and; katham—how; sādhyāḥ—attainable; kṛṣṇa-mantrāḥ—Kṛṣṇa-mantras; su-durlabhāḥ—very difficult to attain.
English translation of verse:
They will care only for their wives and children. They will not care to serve Lord Hari. How can people like this attain Kṛṣṇa-mantras, which are so difficult to attain?