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:

श्री-नारद उवाच <इ>गते मधु-पुरीं कृश्णे विप्रलम्भ-रसः कथम्
वासुदेवे राधिकायाः संशयं छिन्धि मे प्रभो

śrī-nārada uvāca gate madhu-purīṃ kṛṣṇe vipralambha-rasaḥ katham
vāsudeve rādhikāyāḥ saṃśayaṃ chindhi me prabho

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; gate—gone; madhu-purīṃ—to Mathurā; kṛṣṇe—Kṛṣṇa; vipralambha-rasaḥ—the mellows of separation; katham—how?; vāsudeve—in the son of Vasudeva; rādhikāyāḥ—of Rādhā; saṃśayaṃ—doubt; chindhi—please cut; me—of me; prabho—O lord.

English translation of verse:

Śrī Nārada said: If when Lord Kṛṣṇa goes to Mathurā He manifests His more-perfect form of Vāsudeva's son (which is different from the most-perfect form of Nanda's son), then how is it possible for Śrī Rādhā to feel the pangs of separation from this form (a form different from the Vṛndāvana-Kṛṣṇa)? O master, please cut apart this doubt.

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