You are, indeed, capable of bearing the entire Earth. You will gain nothing by not holding this energy. That foremost of rivers, though thus dissuaded by the deity of fire as also by all the other celestials, cast off the seed on the breast of Meru, that foremost of all mountains.
शक्ता ह्यसि महीं कृत्स्नां वोढुं धारयितुं तथा। न हि ते किंचिदप्राप्यमन्यतो धारणादृते॥ सा वह्निना वार्यमाणा देवैरपि सरिद्वरा। समुत्ससर्ज तं गर्भं मेरौ गिरिवरे तदा॥