The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Haristutiḥ

Verse 24

श्रद्धाभक्तिध्यानशमाद्यैर्यत्तमानै-र्ज्ञातुं शक्यो देव इहैवाशु य ईशः ।दुर्विज्ञेयो जन्मशतैश्चापि विना तै-स्तं संसारध्वान्तविनाशं हरिमीडे ॥ २४ ॥

In plain words

Faith, devotion, meditation, a quieted mind — to anyone who actually strives with these, the Lord can be known here, in this life, and soon. Without them, a hundred lifetimes will not turn him up. Him — Hari, in whom the darkness of saṃsāra is destroyed — I praise.

Close to the Sanskrit

He who is the God, the Lord, able to be known here itself and swiftly, by those striving with faith, devotion, meditation, inner calm and the rest — and who is hard to know even through hundreds of births without those — him, Hari, the destruction of the darkness of saṃsāra, I praise.