Shloka 3

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

Devanagari script

च्रेअतिओन् फ़्रोम् अव्यक्त अव्यक्तं चेश्वरात्तस्माद् अभवत्कारणं परम् प्रधानं प्रकृतिश्चेति यदाहुस्तत्त्वचिन्तकाः

Transliteration

creation from avyakta avyaktaṃ ceśvarāttasmād abhavatkāraṇaṃ param pradhānaṃ prakṛtiśceti yadāhustattvacintakāḥ

Translation

A criação procede do Não-Manifesto (Avyakta); e o Não-Manifesto surge do Senhor. Portanto, o princípio causal supremo—chamado Pradhāna e também conhecido como Prakṛti—é o que declaram os contempladores do tattva.

Word by Word

• sṛṣṭiḥ: creation

• avyaktāt: from the unmanifest

• avyaktam: the unmanifest principle

• ca: and

• īśvarāt: from the Lord (Īśvara/Pati)

• tasmāt: therefore/from that

• abhavat: came to be/arose

• kāraṇam: cause

• param: supreme

• pradhānam: Pradhāna (primordial matrix of nature)

• prakṛtiḥ: Prakṛti (primordial nature)

• ca: and

• iti: thus

• yat: which/that

• āhuḥ: (they) say/declare

• tattva-cintakāḥ: thinkers of tattva, contemplators of ultimate principles.

Speaker

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