ममैतद् दुर्लभं मन्य उत्तम:श्लोकदर्शनम् । विषयात्मनो यथा ब्रह्मकीर्तनं शूद्रजन्मन: ॥ ४ ॥
mamaitad durlabhaṁ manya uttamaḥ-śloka-darśanam viṣayātmano yathā brahma- kīrtanaṁ śūdra-janmanaḥ
- mama
- my
- etat
- this
- durlabham
- difficult to achieve
- manye
- I consider
- uttamaḥ-śloka
- of the Supreme Lord, who is praised in the best poetry
- darśanam
- the audience
- viṣaya-ātmanaḥ
- for one who is absorbed in sense gratification
- yathā
- just as
- brahma
- of the Vedas
- kīrtanam
- chanting
- śūdra
- as a low-class man
- janmanaḥ
- by one who has taken his birth
Since I am a materialistic person absorbed simply in sense gratification, I think it is as difficult for me to have gotten this opportunity to see Lord Uttamaḥśloka as it would be for one born a śūdra to be allowed to recite the Vedic mantras.