🪷 ŚB 7.4.22-23

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

तस्यै नमोऽस्तु काष्ठायै यत्रात्मा हरिरीश्वर: । यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते शान्ता: संन्यासिनोऽमला: ॥ २२ ॥ इति ते संयतात्मान: समाहितधियोऽमला: । उपतस्थुर्हृषीकेशं विनिद्रा वायुभोजना: ॥ २३ ॥

Transliteration

tasyai namo ’stu kāṣṭhāyai yatrātmā harir īśvaraḥ yad gatvā na nivartante śāntāḥ sannyāsino ’malāḥ
Synonyms
tasyai — unto that; namaḥ — our respectful obeisances; astu — let there be; kāṣṭhāyai — direction; yatra — wherein; ātmā — the Supersoul; hariḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; īśvaraḥ — the supreme controller; yat — which; gatvā — approaching; na — never; nivartante — return; śāntāḥ — peaceful; sannyāsinaḥ — saintly persons in the renounced order of life; amalāḥ — pure; iti — thus; te — they; saṁyata-ātmānaḥ — having controlled minds; samāhita — steadied; dhiyaḥ — intelligences; amalāḥ — purified; upatasthuḥ — worshiped; hṛṣīkeśam — the master of the senses; vinidrāḥ — without sleeping; vāyu-bhojanāḥ — eating only air.

Translation

“Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that direction where the Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated, where those purified souls in the renounced order of life, the great saintly persons, go, and from which, having gone, they never return.” Without sleep, fully controlling their minds, and living on only their breath, the predominating deities of the various planets began worshiping Hṛṣīkeśa with this meditation.

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