विश्वमात्मगतं व्यञ्जन्कूटस्थो जगदङ्कुर: । स्वतेजसापिबत्तीव्रमात्मप्रस्वापनं तम: ॥ २० ॥
visvam atma-gatam vyanjan kuta-stho jagad-ankurah sva-tejasapibat tivram atma-prasvapanam tamah
- visvam
- the universe
- atma-gatam
- contained within itself
- vyanjan
- manifesting
- kuta-sthah
- unchangeable
- jagat-ankurah
- the root of all cosmic manifestations
- sva-tejasa
- by its own effulgence
- apibat
- swallowed
- tivram
- dense
- atma-prasvapanam
- which had covered the mahat-tattva
- tamah
- darkness.
Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of all cosmic manifestations and which is not destroyed at the time of annihilation, swallows the darkness that covered the effulgence at the time of dissolution.