अंशुमानुवाच न पश्यति त्वां परमात्मनोऽजनो न बुध्यतेऽद्यापि समाधियुक्तिभि: । कुतोऽपरे तस्य मन:शरीरधी- विसर्गसृष्टा वयमप्रकाशा: ॥ २१ ॥
amsuman uvaca na pasyati tvam param atmano ’jano na budhyate ’dyapi samadhi-yuktibhih kuto ’pare tasya manah-sarira-dhi- visarga-srsta vayam aprakasah
- amsuman uvaca
- Amsuman said
- na
- not
- pasyati
- can see
- tvam
- Your Lordship
- param
- transcendental
- atmanah
- of us living beings
- ajanah
- Lord Brahma
- na
- not
- budhyate
- can understand
- adya api
- even today
- samadhi
- by meditation
- yuktibhih
- or by mental speculation
- kutah
- how
- apare
- others
- tasya
- his
- manah-sarira-dhi
- who consider the body or mind to be the self
- visarga-srstah
- created beings within the material world
- vayam
- we
- aprakasah
- without transcendental knowledge
Amsuman said: My Lord, even Lord Brahma is to this very day unable to understand Your position, which is far beyond himself, either by meditation or by mental speculation. So what to speak of others like us, who have been created by Brahma in various forms as demigods, animals, human beings, birds and beasts? We are completely in ignorance. Therefore, how can we know You, who are the Transcendence?