अहमेवासमेवाग्रे नान्यत् किञ्चान्तरं बहि: । संज्ञानमात्रमव्यक्तं प्रसुप्तमिव विश्वत: ॥ ४७ ॥
aham evasam evagre nanyat kincantaram bahih samjnana-matram avyaktam prasuptam iva visvatah
- aham
- I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- eva
- only
- asam
- was
- eva
- certainly
- agre
- in the beginning, before the creation
- na
- not
- anyat
- other
- kinca
- anything
- antaram
- besides Me
- bahih
- external (since the cosmic manifestation is external to the spiritual world, the spiritual world existed when there was no material world)
- samjnana-matram
- only the consciousness of the living entities
- avyaktam
- unmanifested
- prasuptam
- sleeping
- iva
- like
- visvatah
- all over
Before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, I alone existed with My specific spiritual potencies. Consciousness was then unmanifested, just as one’s consciousness is unmanifested during the time of sleep.