तत्ते वयं लोकसिसृक्षयाद्य त्वयानुसृष्टास्त्रिभिरात्मभि: स्म । सर्वे वियुक्ता: स्वविहारतन्त्रं न शक्नुमस्तत्प्रतिहर्तवे ते ॥ ४८ ॥
tat te vayam loka-sisrksayadya tvayanusrstas tribhir atmabhih sma sarve viyuktah sva-vihara-tantram na saknumas tat pratihartave te
- tat
- therefore
- te
- Your
- vayam
- all of us
- loka
- world
- sisrksaya
- for the sake of creation
- adya
- O Original person
- tvaya
- by You
- anusrstah
- being created one after another
- tribhih
- by the three modes of nature
- atmabhih
- by one’s own
- sma
- in the past
- sarve
- all
- viyuktah
- separated
- sva-vihara-tantram
- the network of activities for one’s own pleasure
- na
- not
- saknumah
- could do it
- tat
- that
- pratihartave
- to award
- te
- unto Your
O Original Person, we are therefore but Yours only. Although we are Your creatures, we are born one after another under the influence of the three modes of nature, and for this reason we are separated in action. Therefore, after the creation we could not act concertedly for Your transcendental pleasure.