श्रीदेव्युवाच प्रतिभान्ति जगन्त्याशु मृतिमोहादनन्तरम् । जीवस्योन्मीलनादक्ष्णो रूपाणीवाऽखिलान्यलम् ॥ १ ॥
śrīdēvyuvāca pratibhānti jagantyāśu mṛtimōhādanantaram | jīvasyōnmīlanādakṣṇō rūpāṇīvā’khilānyalam || 1 ||
Translation
The goddess said: Right after the stupor of death, the worlds at once shine forth for the jīva, whole and complete, as all forms do when the eye opens.
Word by word
- pratibhānti
- shine forth
- jagantya
- (jaganti) the worlds
- āśu
- at once
- mṛti
- of death
- mōhād
- (mohāt) after the stupor
- anantaram
- right
- jīvasya
- for the jīva
- unmīlanād
- (unmīlanāt) on the opening
- akṣṇō
- (akṣṇaḥ) of the eye
- rūpāṇi
- forms
- iva
- as
- akhilānya
- (akhilāni) all
- alam
- whole and complete
Meaning
The goddess answers the doubt Līlā raised in the last sarga: how can a whole world, with years of life in it, follow on a death only days ago? Death is a swoon, a moment of forgetting. When it lifts, a world is simply there, complete at once, as everything before us is there the instant the eyelids part. Nothing is assembled piece by piece; the seeing and the world arrive together.