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:

संसाराग्नि-विनाशाय मयाप्य् एतत् तवोदितम्
त्वया च तद् गोपनीय- रहस्यं परमाद्भुतम्

saṃsārāgni-vināśāya mayāpy etat tavoditam
tvayā ca tad gopanīya- rahasyaṃ paramādbhutam

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

saṃsāraof birth and death; agni—of the fire; vināśāya—for the destruction; mayā—by me; api—also; etat—this; tava—of you; uditam—spoken; tvayā—by you; ca—and; tad—this; gopanīya-rahasyaṃ—very secret and confidential; paramādbhutam—very wonderful.

English translation of verse:

These words I have spoken have the power to extinguish the fire of repeated birth and death. Please protect these very confidential and wonderful words very carefully.

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