SB 6.14.23 · Srimad Bhagavatam

Devanagari

चित्रकेतुरुवाच भगवन् किं न विदितं तपोज्ञानसमाधिभि: । योगिनां ध्वस्तपापानां बहिरन्त: शरीरिषु ॥ २३ ॥

Verse text

citraketur uvāca bhagavan kiṁ na viditaṁ tapo-jṣāna-samādhibhiḥ yogināṁ dhvasta-pāpānāṁ bahir antaḥ śarīriṣu

Synonyms

citraketuḥ uvāca — King Citraketu replied ; bhagavan — O most powerful sage ; kim — what ; na — not ; viditam — is understood ; tapaḥ — by austerity ; jṣāna — knowledge ; samādhibhiḥ — and by samādhi (trance, transcendental meditation) ; yoginām — by the great yogīs or devotees ; dhvasta — pāpānām — who are fully freed from all sinful reactions ; bahiḥ — externally ; antaḥ — internally ; śarīriṣu — in conditioned souls, who have material bodies .

Translation

King Citraketu said: O great lord Aṅgirā, because of austerity, knowledge and transcendental samādhi, you are freed from all the reactions of sinful life. Therefore, as a perfect yogī, you can understand everything external and internal regarding embodied, conditioned souls like us.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

King Citraketu said: What is not known in all embodied beings externally and internally by yogīs who have destroyed all sins by austerity, knowledge and samādhi? Śarīriṣu means “persons like me.”