तप्तं तपो विविधलोकसिसृक्षया मे आदौ सनात् स्वतपस: स चतु:सनोऽभूत् । प्राक्कल्पसम्प्लवविनष्टमिहात्मतत्त्वं सम्यग् जगाद मुनयो यदचक्षतात्मन् ॥ ५ ॥
taptam tapo vividha-loka-sisrksaya me adau sanat sva-tapasah sa catuh-sano ’bhut prak-kalpa-samplava-vinastam ihatma-tattvam samyag jagada munayo yad acaksatatman
- taptam
- having undergone austerities
- tapah
- penance
- vividha-loka
- different planetary systems
- sisrksaya
- desiring to create
- me
- of mine
- adau
- at first
- sanat
- from the Personality of Godhead
- sva-tapasah
- by dint of my own penances
- sah
- He (the Lord)
- catuh-sanah
- the four bachelors named Sanat-kumara, Sanaka, Sanandana and Sanatana
- abhut
- appeared
- prak
- previous
- kalpa
- creation
- samplava
- in the inundation
- vinastam
- devastated
- iha
- in this material world
- atma
- the spirit
- tattvam
- truth
- samyak
- in complete
- jagada
- became manifested
- munayah
- sages
- yat
- that which
- acaksata
- saw clearly
- atman
- the spirit
To create different planeary systems I had to undergo austerities and penance, and the Lord, thus being pleased with me, incarnated in four sanas (Sanaka, Sanat-kumara, Sanandana and Sanatana). In the previous creation the spiritual truth was devastated, but the four sanas explained it so nicely that the truth at once became clearly perceived by the sages.