कश्चिज्जलगतं वेत्ति कश्चित्सम्राड्स्वरूपिणम् । भाविब्रह्माण्डकलनां पश्यत्यनुभवत्यपि ॥ ३५ ॥
kaścijjalagataṁ vētti kaścitsamrāḍsvarūpiṇam | bhāvibrahmāṇḍakalanāṁ paśyatyanubhavatyapi || 35 ||
Translation
One knows it as lying in the water; another knows it as the form of an emperor; he sees and also experiences the conception of the cosmic egg to come.
Word by word
- kaścij
- (kaścit) one
- jala
- the water
- gataṁ
- lying in
- vētti
- knows
- kaścit
- another
- samrāḍ
- of an emperor
- svarūpiṇam
- as the form
- bhāvi
- to come
- brahmāṇḍa
- of the cosmic egg
- kalanāṁ
- the conception
- paśyati
- sees
- anubhavati
- experiences
- api
- also
Meaning
The commentary: one (another commentary names Viṣṇu) knows the cosmic egg through the sense "I" in the egg lying in the midst of the waters; another (Brahmā) knows himself through the sense "I" in the body of Brahmā within the egg, the four-faced emperor. So, from the spark to the outer gross objects, by his own resolve one knows himself as the cosmic egg, another as Hiraṇyagarbha; and then he sees and experiences the conception of the egg to come. The same awareness takes two seats: the whole, and the one who rules it from within.