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:

सकृद् आवां प्रपन्नो यस् त्यक्तोपाय उपासते
गोपी-भावेन देवेश समम् एति न चेतरा

sakṛd āvāṃ prapanno yas tyaktopāya upāsate
gopī-bhāvena deveśa samam eti na cetarā

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

sakṛt—once; avam—to Us; prapannaḥ—surrendered; yaḥ—who; tyakta—abandoned; upāyaḥmethods; upāsate—worships; gopī- bhāvena—with the nature of a gopī; deveśa—O master of the demigods; samam—with; eti—goes; na—not; ca—and; itarā—another.

English translation of verse:

A person who, renouncing all else, once surrenders to Me and to Śrī Rādhā, and worships Us as the gopīs worship Us, attains Us. No one else attains Us.

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