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गङ्गातीरे हिमगिरिशिलाबद्धपद्मासनस्य |
98. Will those happy days come to me when on the bank of the Ganga, sitting in the lotusposture on a piece of stone in the Himalayas, I shall fall into the yoga-nidra (i.e. lose all consciousness in Samadhi or perfect concentration) resulting from a regular practice of the contemplation of Brahman, and when old antelopes having nothing to fear, will rub their limbs against my body !
[ पझासनम्-lit. lotus-seat; sitting cross-legged so that the soles of the feet protrude above along the thighs]
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पाणिः पात्रं पवित्रं भ्रृमणपरिगतं भैक्षमक्षय्यमन्न |
99, With the hand serving as sacred cop, with begged food that comes through wandering and never runs short, with the ten quarters as their ample garment and the earth as a fixed, spacious bed-blessed are they who, having forsaken the manifold Worldly associations which an attitude of want breeds, and self-contented with a heart
