Shloka 36

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

सर्गे च रजसा युक्तः सत्त्वस्थः प्रतिपालने प्रतिसर्गे तमोद्रिक्तः स एव त्रिविधः क्रमात्

Transliteration

sarge ca rajasā yuktaḥ sattvasthaḥ pratipālane pratisarge tamodriktaḥ sa eva trividhaḥ kramāt

Translation

創造（sarga）において主はラジャスと結び、維持においてはサットヴァに安住し、再創造／融解（pratisarga）においてはタマスが優勢となる。かくして順次に、同一の主はグナにより三様の働きを現す。

Word by Word

• सर्गे: in creation

• च: and

• रजसा: with rajas (the activating guṇa)

• युक्तः: united/associated

• सत्त्वस्थः: established in sattva

• प्रतिपालने: in protecting/preserving (the worlds)

• प्रतिसर्गे: in re-creation/secondary creation and dissolution

• तमोद्रिक्तः: with tamas predominant

• सः एव: He alone indeed

• त्रिविधः: threefold (in modes/functions)

• क्रमात्: in sequence/according to order

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)