ससर्जाग्रेऽन्धतामिस्रमथ तामिस्रमादिकृत् । महामोहं च मोहं च तमश्चाज्ञानवृत्तय: ॥ २ ॥
sasarjagre ’ndha-tamisram atha tamisram adi-krt mahamoham ca moham ca tamas cajnana-vrttayah
- sasarja
- created
- agre
- at first
- andha-tamisram
- the sense of death
- atha
- then
- tamisram
- anger upon frustration
- adi-krt
- all these
- maha-moham
- ownership of enjoyable objects
- ca
- also
- moham
- illusory conception
- ca
- also
- tamah
- darkness in self-knowledge
- ca
- as well as
- ajnana
- nescience
- vrttayah
- engagements.
Brahma first created the nescient engagements like self-deception, the sense of death, anger after frustration, the sense of false ownership, and the illusory bodily conception, or forgetfulness of one’s real identity.