Devanagari
मनुरुवाच
येन चेतयते विश्वं विश्वं चेतयते न यम् ।
यो जागर्ति शयानेऽस्मिन्नायं तं वेद वेद स: ॥ ९ ॥
Verse text
śrī-manur uvāca
yena cetayate viśvaṁ
viśvaṁ cetayate na yam
yo jāgarti śayāne ’smin
nāyaṁ taṁ veda veda saḥ
Synonyms
śrī
—
manuḥ uvāca — Svāyambhuva Manu chanted
;
yena
—
by whom (the Personality of Godhead)
;
cetayate
—
is brought into animation
;
viśvam
—
the whole universe
;
viśvam
—
the whole universe (the material world)
;
cetayate
—
animates
;
na
—
not
;
yam
—
He whom
;
yaḥ
—
He who
;
jāgarti
—
is always awake (watching all activities)
;
śayāne
—
while sleeping
;
asmin
—
in this body
;
na
—
not
;
ayam
—
this living entity
;
tam
—
Him
;
veda
—
knows
;
veda
—
knows
;
saḥ
—
He .
Translation
Lord Manu said: The supreme living being has created this material world of animation; it is not that He was created by this material world. When everything is silent, the Supreme Being stays awake as a witness. The living entity does not know Him, but He knows everything.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Manu said: The Lord brings the universe to life. The universe does not bring the Lord to life. While the universe sleeps, the Lord is awake. The universe does not know him, but he knows everything.
Yena here means yaḥ (he who brings the universe to life.) The people in the universe do not know he who brings the universe to life and whom the universe does not bring to life, who is awake while the universe is sleeping in deep sleep, or in pralaya, and who sleeps in yoga-nidrā, while the universe is not awake (this phrase should be added). The Lord knows the universe.
Purport
Here is a distinction between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities.
Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām
(
Kaṭha Upaniṣad
2.2.13). According to the Vedic version, the Lord is the supreme eternal, the supreme living being. The difference between the Supreme Being and the ordinary living being is that when this material world is annihilated, all the living entities remain silent in oblivion, in a dreaming or unconscious condition, whereas the Supreme Being stays awake as the witness of everything. This material world is created, it stays for some time, and then it is annihilated. Throughout these changes, however, the Supreme Being remains awake. In the material condition of all living entities, there are three stages of dreaming. When the material world is awake and put in working order, this is a kind of dream, a waking dream. When the living entities go to sleep, they dream again. And when unconscious at the time of annihilation, when this material world is unmanifested, they enter another stage of dreaming. At any stage in the material world, therefore, they are all dreaming. In the spiritual world, however, everything is awake.