तेभ्यः समभवत् सूत्रं महान् सूत्रेण संयुतः । ततो विकुर्वतो जातो योऽहङ्कारो विमोहनः ॥ ६ ॥
tebhyaḥ samabhavat sūtraṁ mahān sūtreṇa saṁyutaḥ tato vikurvato jāto yo ’haṅkāro vimohanaḥ
- tebhyaḥ
- from those modes
- samabhavat
- arose
- sūtram
- the first transformation of nature, endowed with the potency of activity
- mahān
- primeval nature endowed with the potency of knowledge
- sūtreṇa
- with this sūtra-tattva
- saṁyutaḥ
- conjoined
- tataḥ
- from the mahat
- vikurvataḥ
- transforming
- jātaḥ
- was generated
- yaḥ
- which
- ahaṅkāraḥ
- false ego
- vimohanaḥ
- the cause of bewilderment
From these modes arose the primeval sūtra, along with the mahat-tattva. By the transformation of the mahat-tattva was generated the false ego, the cause of the living entities’ bewilderment.