सोऽहं वसन्नपि विभो बहुदु:खवासं गर्भान्न निर्जिगमिषे बहिरन्धकूपे । यत्रोपयातमुपसर्पति देवमाया मिथ्या मतिर्यदनु संसृतिचक्रमेतत् ॥ २० ॥
so ’ham vasann api vibho bahu-duhkha-vasam garbhan na nirjigamise bahir andha-kupe yatropayatam upasarpati deva-maya mithya matir yad-anu samsrti-cakram etat
- sah aham
- I myself
- vasan
- living
- api
- although
- vibho
- O Lord
- bahu-duhkha
- with many miseries
- vasam
- in a condition
- garbhat
- from the abdomen
- na
- not
- nirjigamise
- I wish to depart
- bahih
- outside
- andha-kupe
- in the blind well
- yatra
- where
- upayatam
- one who goes there
- upasarpati
- she captures
- deva-maya
- the external energy of the Lord
- mithya
- false
- matih
- identification
- yat
- which maya
- anu
- according to
- samsrti
- of continual birth and death
- cakram
- cycle
- etat
- this
Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother’s abdomen to fall again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external energy, called deva-maya, at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.