SB 12.10.9 · Srimad Bhagavatam

Devanagari

तयोरागमनं साक्षादीशयोर्जगदात्मनो: । न वेद रुद्धधीवृत्तिरात्मानं विश्वमेव च ॥ ९ ॥

Verse text

tayor āgamanaṁ sākṣād īśayor jagad-ātmanoḥ na veda ruddha-dhī-vṛttir ātmānaṁ viśvam eva ca

Synonyms

tayoḥ — of the two of them ; āgamanam — the arrival ; sākṣāt — in person ; īśayoḥ — of the powerful personalities ; jagat — ātmanoḥ — the controllers of the universe ; na veda — he did not notice ; ruddha — checked ; dhī — vṛttiḥ — the functioning of his mind ; ātmānam — himself ; viśvam — the external universe ; eva — indeed ; ca — also .

Translation

Because Mārkaṇḍeya’s material mind had stopped functioning, the sage failed to notice that Lord Śiva and his wife, the controllers of the universe, had personally come to see him. Mārkaṇḍeya was so absorbed in meditation that he was unaware of either himself or the external world.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Because Mārkaṇḍeya's material mind had stopped functioning, the sage failed to notice that Lord Śiva and his wife, the controllers of the universe, had personally come to see him. Mārkaṇḍeya was unaware of either himself or the external world. Not only was Mārkaṇḍeya unaware of Śiva, but he was unaware of himself, in the sense of his identity as “I” and was unaware of the universe, identified as “mine.”