श्रीशङ्कर उवाच वयं न तात प्रभवाम भूम्नि यस्मिन् परेऽन्येऽप्यजजीवकोशा: । भवन्ति काले न भवन्ति हीदृशा: सहस्रशो यत्र वयं भ्रमाम: ॥ ५६ ॥
sri-sankara uvaca vayam na tata prabhavama bhumni yasmin pare ’nye ’py aja-jiva-kosah bhavanti kale na bhavanti hidrsah sahasraso yatra vayam bhramamah
- sri-sankarah uvaca
- Lord Siva said
- vayam
- we
- na
- not
- tata
- O my dear son
- prabhavamah
- sufficiently able
- bhumni
- unto the great Supreme Personality of Godhead
- yasmin
- in whom
- pare
- in the Transcendence
- anye
- others
- api
- even
- aja
- Lord Brahma
- jiva
- living entities
- kosah
- the universes
- bhavanti
- can become
- kale
- in due course of time
- na
- not
- bhavanti
- can become
- hi
- indeed
- idrsah
- like this
- sahasrasah
- many thousands and millions
- yatra
- wherein
- vayam
- all of us
- bhramamah
- are rotating
Lord Siva said: My dear son, I, Lord Brahma and the other demigods, who rotate within this universe under the misconception of our greatness, cannot exhibit any power to compete with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for innumerable universes and their inhabitants come into existence and are annihilated by the simple direction of the Lord.