Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
तदन्धकारे क्षुत्क्षामानसृजद् भगवानजः ।
विरूपान् श्मश्रुलानत्तुमारब्धास्ते च तां तनुम् ॥
tad-andhakāre kṣut-kṣāmān asṛjad bhagavān ajaḥ / virūpān śmaśrulān attum ārabdhās te ca tāṃ tanum
Trong bóng tối ấy, Đấng Phúc Lành Vô Sinh (Aja) tạo ra các loài bị đói làm cho tiều tụy—hình dạng méo mó và râu ria; rồi chúng bắt đầu toan nuốt lấy thân ấy.
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When desire (hunger) operates in darkness (ignorance), it produces distorted tendencies that ‘consume’ their very basis—an ethical warning about unchecked appetites.
Sarga: generation of classes of beings from a rajas-tamas condition.
The ‘devouring of the body’ can symbolize self-consuming cravings: tamasic drives attempt to appropriate the very ‘form’ of consciousness that generated them.