दिशां त्वमवकाशोऽसि दिश: खं स्फोट आश्रय: । नादो वर्णस्त्वम् ॐकार आकृतीनां पृथक्कृति: ॥ ९ ॥
diśāṁ tvam avakāśo ’si diśaḥ khaṁ sphoṭa āśrayaḥ nādo varṇas tvam oṁkāra ākṛtīnāṁ pṛthak-kṛtiḥ
- diśām
- of the directions
- tvam
- You
- avakāśaḥ
- the power to accommodate
- asi
- are
- diśaḥ
- the directions
- kham
- the ether
- sphoṭaḥ
- elemental sound
- āśrayaḥ
- having (ether) as its basis
- nādaḥ
- sound in its form of unmanifest vibration
- varṇaḥ
- the primeval syllable
- tvam
- You
- oṁkāraḥ
- om
- ākṛtīnām
- of particular forms
- pṛthak-kṛtiḥ
- the cause of differentiation (namely, manifest language)
You are the directions and their accommodating capacity, the all-pervading ether and the elemental sound residing within it. You are the primeval, unmanifested form of sound; the first syllable, om; and audible speech, by which sound, as words, acquires particular references.