ब्रह्मोवाच मानसा मे सुता युष्मत्पूर्वजा: सनकादय: । चेरुर्विहायसा लोकाल्लोकेषु विगतस्पृहा: ॥ १२ ॥
brahmovaca manasa me suta yusmat- purvajah sanakadayah cerur vihayasa lokal lokesu vigata-sprhah
- brahma uvaca
- Lord Brahma said
- manasah
- born from the mind
- me
- my
- sutah
- sons
- yusmat
- than you
- purva-jah
- born previously
- sanaka-adayah
- headed by Sanaka
- ceruh
- traveled
- vihayasa
- by traveling in outer space or flying in the sky
- lokan
- to the material and spiritual worlds
- lokesu
- among the people
- vigata-sprhah
- without any desire.
Lord Brahma said: My four sons Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumara, who were born from my mind, are your predecessors. Sometimes they travel throughout the material and spiritual skies without any definite desire.