लीलोवाच । स्मृतिः सा देवि मद्भर्तुस्तथा स्फारत्वमागता । स्मृतिस्तत्कारणं वेद्मि सर्गोऽयमिति निश्चयः ॥ २४ ॥
līlōvāca | smṛtiḥ sā dēvi madbhartustathā sphāratvamāgatā | smṛtistatkāraṇaṁ vēdmi sargō’yamiti niścayaḥ || 24 ||
Translation
Līlā said: "It is my husband's memory, O goddess, that has grown so vast. Memory is its cause, I know: this creation is that, I am sure."
Word by word
- smṛtiḥ
- memory
- sā
- it
- dēvi
- O goddess
- mad
- (mat) my
- bhartus
- (bhartuḥ) husband’s
- tathā
- so
- sphāratvam
- vastness
- āgatā
- has grown to
- smṛtis
- (smṛtiḥ) memory
- tat
- its
- kāraṇaṁ
- cause
- vēdmi
- I know
- sargō
- (sargaḥ) creation
- ayam
- this
- iti
- so
- niścayaḥ
- I am sure
Meaning
The commentary: Līlā raises another kind of difference: my husband's world is born of impressions left by experience of this one, like a dream, which is like memory and has no object present before it. She said, goddess, my husband's memory has grown so strong that it has become the cause of this world.