ब्रह्मा किल पराकाशवपुराक्रम्यते कथम् । मनोमात्रं च सङ्कल्पः पृथ्व्यादिरहिताकृतिः ॥ ४९ ॥
brahmā kila parākāśavapurākramyatē katham | manōmātraṁ ca saṅkalpaḥ pṛthvyādirahitākṛtiḥ || 49 ||
Translation
How can Brahmā, whose body is the supreme space, be overcome? He is mind alone, imagining, a form without earth and the rest.
Word by word
- brahmā
- Brahmā
- kila
- indeed
- para
- the supreme
- ākāśa
- space
- vapur
- (vapuḥ) whose body is
- ākramyatē
- be overcome
- katham
- how
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- mātraṁ
- alone
- ca
- and
- saṅkalpaḥ
- imagining
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādi
- and the rest
- rahita
- without
- ākṛtiḥ
- a form
Meaning
Vasiṣṭha now says plainly what the story showed. The commentary: Brahmā is of the nature of the space of awareness, his body is made of imagining, his form has no earth in it; his body is mind alone; how could anyone attack him? This is the sentence the next sarga takes up: Brahmā is mind.