🪷 ŚB 11.3.21

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

Sanskrit

तस्माद् गुरुं प्रपद्येत जिज्ञासु: श्रेय उत्तमम् । शाब्दे परे च निष्णातं ब्रह्मण्युपशमाश्रयम् ॥ २१ ॥

Transliteration

tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam śābde pare ca niṣṇātaṁ brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam
Synonyms
tasmāt — therefore; gurum — a spiritual master; prapadyeta — one should take shelter of; jijñāsuḥ — being inquisitive; śreyaḥ uttamam — about the highest good; śābde — in the Vedas; pare — in the Supreme; ca — and; niṣṇātam — perfectly knowledgeable; brahmaṇi — (in these two aspects) of the Absolute Truth; upaśama-āśrayam — fixed in detachment from material affairs.

Translation

Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters.

गीता प्रेस, गोरखपुर · पृथक पाठ-साक्षी

Sanskrit and Hindi Witness

इस पाठ-साक्षी का श्लोक-पता वर्तमान ŚB मार्ग से ठीक मिलता है। गीता प्रेस और वर्तमान अंग्रेज़ी पाठ को मिलाया नहीं गया है; दोनों अपने-अपने स्रोत-रूप में साथ पढ़े जा सकते हैं।

ŚB 11.3.21 · गीता प्रेस पाठ

तस्माद् गुरुं प्रपद्येत जिज्ञासु: श्रेय उत्तमम्। शाब्दे परे च निष्णातं ब्रह्मण्युपशमाश्रयम्॥ २१

हिन्दी भावार्थ

इसलिये जो परम कल्याणका जिज्ञासु हो, उसे गुरुदेवकी शरण लेनी चाहिये। गुरुदेव ऐसे हों, जो शब्दब्रह्म—वेदोंके पारदर्शी विद्वान् हों, जिससे वे ठीक-ठीक समझा सकें; और साथ ही परब्रह्ममें परिनिष्ठित तत्त्वज्ञानी भी हों, ताकि अपने अनुभवके द्वारा प्राप्त हुई रहस्यकी बातोंको बता सकें। उनका चित्त शान्त हो, व्यवहारके प्रपंचमें विशेष प्रवृत्त न हो॥ २१॥

स्रोत-खंड सीमा · यह हिन्दी अंश गीता प्रेस डिजिटल पाठ में इस दृश्य श्लोक-इकाई के बाद आता है; इसे स्वतः एक-से-एक टीका या संस्करण-समानता नहीं माना गया है।

Source witness details
द्वितीय-खण्ड · index_split_036.html · source order 38
Sanskrit SHA-256: fb55e61b56e555915062d4d57bc7b17f793c311ea64e968162b2a44561101c7b
Hindi SHA-256: a19c119136b4c6713c73e2e964016e85a3e17c63ea429994bd173b9a6ba94962
Address crosswalk: exact · final textual equivalence: not claimed

Sources and Connected Bhāgavata Readings

After the Sanskrit, word meanings, translation, and reading navigation, these links connect the requested reference with its canonical received passage, parent chapter and skandha, and the wider Bhāgavata corpus without inventing artificial verse boundaries.

ŚB 11.3.21requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 11.3parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 11parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā reading pathway inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

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