Shloka 5
Guṇa-traya-vibhāga-yoga (त्रिगुणविभागयोग) — The Analysis of the Three Guṇas
५) “मैंने विविध प्रकारके लोकोंको उत्पन्न करनेकी इच्छासे जो सबसे पहले तप किया
mayā vividha-prakārān lokān utpādayituṁ kāmayamānena yaḥ prathamaṁ tapaḥ kṛtaḥ, tasya mama akhaṇḍita-tapasaiva bhagavān svayaṁ sanaka-sanandana-sanātana-sanatkumāra-iti caturṣu “san”-nāmaka-rūpeṣu prādurabhavat; pūrva-kalpe pralaya-kāle asmin saṁsāre naṣṭaḥ ya ātmātattva-jñāna-pracāraḥ, taṁ tair yathāvat upadiṣṭaṁ, yena te munayaḥ sva-hṛdaye ātmātattvasya sākṣātkāraṁ prāpuḥ.
彼は言った。「私が多様な世界を生み出そうとの願いから、最初に苦行（タパス）を修したとき、その断たれぬ苦行の力より、主ご自身が『サン』の名を帯びる四つの姿—サナカ、サナンダナ、サナータナ、サナトクマーラ—として顕現された。先の宇宙周期において、滅尽（プララヤ）の時にこの世から失われた我（アートマン）の智の教えを、彼らは正しく再び説き、かくして見者たちは自らの心中に我の真理を証得したのである。」
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Spiritual knowledge can be lost across cosmic dissolutions, but it is restored through realized teachers; unwavering discipline (akhaṇḍita tapas) becomes the condition for divine manifestation and for the re-establishment of ātmātattva-jñāna, culminating in direct inner realization (sākṣātkāra).
A cosmogonic account is given: the speaker describes performing primal austerity to generate worlds, after which the Lord appears as the four ‘San’ sages (the Kumāras). They revive the lost teaching of Self-knowledge from a prior kalpa’s pralaya, enabling sages to realize the Self in their hearts.