य: स्वानुभावमखिलश्रुतिसारमेक- मध्यात्मदीपमतितितीर्षतां तमोऽन्धम् । संसारिणां करुणयाह पुराणगुह्यं तं व्याससूनुमुपयामि गुरुं मुनीनाम् ॥ ३ ॥
yah svanubhavam akhila-sruti-saram ekam adhyatma-dipam atititirsatam tamo ’ndham samsarinam karunayaha purana-guhyam tam vyasa-sunum upayami gurum muninam
- yah
- he who
- sva-anubhavam
- self-assimilated (experienced)
- akhila
- all around
- sruti
- the Vedas
- saram
- cream
- ekam
- the only one
- adhyatma
- transcendental
- dipam
- torchlight
- atititirsatam
- desiring to overcome
- tamah andham
- deeply dark material existence
- samsarinam
- of the materialistic men
- karunaya
- out of causeless mercy
- aha
- said
- purana
- supplement to the Vedas
- guhyam
- very confidential
- tam
- unto him
- vyasa-sunum
- the son of Vyasadeva
- upayami
- let me offer my obeisances
- gurum
- the spiritual master
- muninam
- of the great sages
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto him (Suka), the spiritual master of all sages, the son of Vyasadeva, who, out of his great compassion for those gross materialists who struggle to cross over the darkest regions of material existence, spoke this most confidential supplement to the cream of Vedic knowledge, after having personally assimilated it by experience.