सोऽहं समाम्नायमयस्तपोमय: प्रजापतीनामभिवन्दित: पति: । आस्थाय योगं निपुणं समाहित- स्तं नाध्यगच्छं यत आत्मसम्भव: ॥ ३५ ॥
so ’ham samamnayamayas tapomayah prajapatinam abhivanditah patih asthaya yogam nipunam samahitas tam nadhyagaccham yata atma-sambhavah
- sah aham
- myself (the great Brahma)
- samamnaya-mayah
- in the chain of disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom
- tapah-mayah
- successfully having undergone all austerities
- prajapatinam
- of all the forefathers of living entities
- abhivanditah
- worshipable
- patih
- master
- asthaya
- successfully practiced
- yogam
- mystic powers
- nipunam
- very expert
- samahitah
- self-realized
- tam
- the Supreme Lord
- na
- did not
- adhyagaccham
- properly understood
- yatah
- from whom
- atma
- self
- sambhavah
- generated
Although I am known as the great Brahma, perfect in the disciplic succession of Vedic wisdom, and although I have undergone all austerities and am an expert in mystic powers and self-realization, and although I am recognized as such by the great forefathers of the living entities, who offer me respectful obeisances, still I cannot understand Him, the Lord, the very source of my birth.