Shloka 26

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

वैकारिकः सात्त्विको वै युगपत्सम्प्रवर्तते सर्गस् तथाप्यहंकाराद् एवमत्र प्रकीर्तितः

Transliteration

vaikārikaḥ sāttviko vai yugapatsampravartate sargas tathāpyahaṃkārād evamatra prakīrtitaḥ

Translation

The vaikārika (sāttvika) creation indeed proceeds all at once; yet here it is declared that it arises in this way from ahaṃkāra, the principle of individuation.

Word by Word

• वैकारिकः: vaikārika, the sāttvika modification (of ahaṃkāra)

• सात्त्विकः: sāttvika, endowed with sattva-guṇa

• वै: indeed

• युगपत्: simultaneously

• सम्प्रवर्तते: proceeds, comes forth into activity

• सर्गः: creation, emanation

• तथापि: nevertheless, yet

• अहंकारात्: from ahaṃkāra (ego-principle)

• एवम्: thus, in this way

• अत्र: here (in this teaching)

• प्रकीर्तितः: is proclaimed, is stated

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological doctrine as taught in the Purana)