श्रीदेव्युवाच स्मृतिराकाशरूपा च यथा तज्जस्तथैव ते । भर्तुः सर्गोऽनुभूतोऽपि स व्योमैव तथाऽबले ॥ २५ ॥
śrīdēvyuvāca smṛtirākāśarūpā ca yathā tajjastathaiva tē | bhartuḥ sargō’nubhūtō’pi sa vyōmaiva tathā’balē || 25 ||
Translation
The goddess said: "Memory is of the form of space, and so is what is born of it; your husband's creation, though experienced, is just space, weak one."
Word by word
- smṛtir
- (smṛtiḥ) memory
- ākāśa
- of space
- rūpā
- of the form
- ca
- and
- yathā
- as
- taj
- (tat) of it
- jas
- (jaḥ) what is born
- tathā
- so
- ēva
- just
- tē
- your
- bhartuḥ
- husband’s
- sargō
- (sargaḥ) creation
- anubhūtō
- (anubhūtaḥ) experienced
- api
- though
- sa
- (saḥ) it
- vyōma
- space
- abalē
- weak one
Meaning
The commentary: then your husband's world was born from impressions of the world seen in a former birth. Knowledge born of impressions is called memory; its object is not present, so memory is empty; and your husband's world, being born like memory from impressions of a former world, is empty too.