Verse 223

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In plain words

His mother was angry with him for eating dirt; he opened his mouth, and in it he showed her the whole universe, entire, and her face fell open. And what is there to marvel at? He is the universe — that is his form.

Close to the Sanskrit

To his own mother — angered by his eating of earth, her face opened wide — he showed in his mouth the entire universe; and what wonder then, since he is the one whose form is the universe?