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:

ज्ञान-वैराग्य-रहिताः श्रवणादि-विवर्जिताः
एते चान्ये च सर्वे स्युर् अस्याधिकारिणो मुने

jñāna-vairāgya-rahitāḥ śravaṇādi-vivarjitāḥ
ete cānye ca sarve syur asyādhikāriṇo mune

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

jñāna-vairāgya-rahitāḥ—devoid of knowledge and renunciation; śravaṇādi-vivarjitāḥ—who have never heard the scriptures; ete—they; ca—and; anye—others; ca—and; sarve—all; syuḥ—are; asya—of this; adhikāriṇaḥ—eligible; mune—O sage.

English translation of verse:

They who have neither knowledge nor renunciation, they who have never studied the śruti-śāstra and other scriptures, and all others, whoever they may be, are also all eligible to chant these mantras.

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