SB 4.8.31
Devanāgarī
मुनय: पदवीं यस्य नि:सङ्गेनोरुजन्मभि: । 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.