आसीज्ज्ञानमथो अर्थ एकमेवाविकल्पितम् । यदा विवेकनिपुणा आदौ कृतयुगेऽयुगे ॥ २ ॥
āsīj jñānam atho artha ekam evāvikalpitam yadā viveka-nipuṇā ādau kṛta-yuge ’yuge
- āsīt
- there existed
- jñānam
- the seer
- atha u
- thus
- arthaḥ
- the seen
- ekam
- one
- eva
- simply
- avikalpitam
- undifferentiated
- yadā
- when
- viveka
- in discrimination
- nipuṇāḥ
- persons who were expert
- ādau
- in the beginning
- kṛta-yuge
- in the age of purity
- ayuge
- and before that, during the time of annihilation
Originally, during the Kṛta-yuga, when all men were very expert in spiritual discrimination, and also previous to that, during the period of annihilation, the seer existed alone, nondifferent from the seen object.