श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । क्व ब्रह्माण्डं क्व तद्भित्तिः क्वाऽत्राऽसौ वज्रसारता । किलाऽवश्यं स्थिते देव्यावन्तःपुरवराम्बरे ॥ २ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | kva brahmāṇḍaṁ kva tadbhittiḥ kvā’trā’sau vajrasāratā | kilā’vaśyaṁ sthitē dēvyāvantaḥpuravarāmbarē || 2 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: Where is the world-egg, where its wall, where here is that hardness of diamond? The two goddesses surely stayed in the space of the fine inner palace.
Word by word
- kva
- where
- brahmāṇḍaṁ
- the world-egg
- tad
- (tat) its
- bhittiḥ
- wall
- atra
- here
- asau
- that
- vajra
- of diamond
- sāratā
- hardness
- kila
- surely
- avaśyaṁ
- surely
- sthitē
- stayed
- dēvyāv
- (devyau) the two goddesses
- antaḥpura
- of the inner palace
- vara
- fine
- ambarē
- in the space
Meaning
The answer undoes the question. The two never left the room; the egg, its wall and its hardness were never anywhere but in awareness.