Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh, sa kaleneha mahata yogo nashtah parantapa
This supreme science was received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in this way. But over the course of time the succession was broken and the science appears to have been lost.
- •Wisdom can be lost when the teacher-student chain breaks
- •Preservation of sacred knowledge requires living transmission
- •Time and negligence erode even the most profound teachings