नाहं परायुर्ऋषयो न मरीचिमुख्याजानन्ति यद्विरचितं खलु सत्त्वसर्गा: । यन्मायया मुषितचेतस ईश दैत्य-मर्त्यादय: किमुत शश्वदभद्रवृत्ता: ॥ १० ॥
naham parayur rsayo na marici-mukhya jananti yad-viracitam khalu sattva-sargah yan-mayaya musita-cetasa isa daitya- martyadayah kim uta sasvad-abhadra-vrttah
- na
- neither
- aham
- I
- para-ayuh
- that personality who lives for millions and millions of years (Lord Brahma)
- rsayah
- the seven rsis of the seven planets
- na
- nor
- marici-mukhyah
- headed by Marici Rsi
- jananti
- know
- yat
- by whom (the Supreme Lord)
- viracitam
- this universe, which has been created
- khalu
- indeed
- sattva-sargah
- although born in the mode of material goodness
- yat-mayaya
- by the influence of whose energy
- musita-cetasah
- their hearts are bewildered
- isa
- O my Lord
- daitya
- the demons
- martya-adayah
- the human beings and others
- kim uta
- what to speak of
- sasvat
- always
- abhadra-vrttah
- influenced by the base qualities of material nature
O my Lord, I, who am considered to be the best of the demigods, and Lord Brahma and the great rsis, headed by Marici, are born of the mode of goodness. Nonetheless, we are bewildered by Your illusory energy and cannot understand what this creation is. Aside from us, what is to be said of others, like the demons and human beings, who are in the base modes of material nature (rajo-guna and tamo-guna)? How will they know You?