Shloka 6

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

अनाद्यन्तमजं सूक्ष्मं त्रिगुणं प्रभवाव्ययम् अप्रकाशमविज्ञेयं ब्रह्माग्रे समवर्तत

Transliteration

anādyantamajaṃ sūkṣmaṃ triguṇaṃ prabhavāvyayam aprakāśamavijñeyaṃ brahmāgre samavartata

Translation

ブラフマーと創造のはたらきに先立ち、その実在は在った——無始無終にして不生、微妙。三グナの根源でありながら自らは不滅。顕れず（感官の光を超え）、凡なる認識には知り得ぬものとして、原初の至上者（パティとしてのシヴァ）として安住していた。

Word by Word

• anādi-antaṃ: without beginning or end

• ajam: unborn

• sūkṣmam: subtle, supra-sensory

• triguṇam: connected with the three guṇas (sattva-rajas-tamas) as their ground

• prabhava: the originating source/cause

• avyayam: undecaying, imperishable

• aprakāśam: unmanifest, not an object of empirical light/appearance

• avijñeyam: not knowable by ordinary intellect

• brahma-agre: prior to Brahmā / before creation

• samavartata: existed, remained present/established

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Purva-Bhaga)