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  "name":"SB 4.8.31",
  "h1":"SB 4.8.31",
  "label":"Text 31",
  "title":"Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.8.31",
  "description":"Nārada Muni continued: After trying this process for many, many births and remaining unattached to material contamination, placing themselves continually in trance and executing many types of austerities, many mystic yogīs were unable to find the end of the path of God realization."

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SB 4.8.31

मुनयः पदवीं यस्य निःसङ्गेनोरुजन्मभिः ।
न विदुर्मृगयन्तोऽपि तीव्रयोगसमाधिना ॥३१॥

Text

munayaḥ padavīṁ yasya
niḥsaṅgenoru-janmabhiḥ
na vidur mṛgayanto 'pi
tīvra-yoga-samādhinā

Synonyms

munayaḥ—great sages; padavīm—path; yasya—whose; niḥsaṅgena—by detachment; uru-janmabhiḥ—after many births; na—never; viduḥ—understood; mṛgayantaḥ—searching for; api—certainly; tīvra-yoga—severe austerities; samādhinā—by trance.

Translation

Nārada Muni continued: After trying this process for many, many births and remaining unattached to material contamination, placing themselves continually in trance and executing many types of austerities, many mystic yogīs were unable to find the end of the path of God realization.