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not accept the omnipotent supreme father. If one accepts the omnipotent supreme father, he abides by His orders and becomes a religious person.
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তবে মহত্তত্ত্ব হৈতে ত্রিবিধ অহঙ্কার । 
যাহা হৈতে দেবতেন্দ্রিয়ভূতের প্রচার ॥ ২৭৬ ॥
tabe mahat-tattva haite trividha ahankāra yāhā haite devatendriya-bhūtera pracāra
SYNONYMS
tabe —thereafter;  mahat-tattva haite —from the total material energy;  trividha —three kinds of;  ahaṅkāra —egotism;  yāhā haite —from which;  devatā —of predominating deities;  indriya —of the senses;  bhūtera —and of material elements;  pracāra —expansion.
TRANSLATION
“First the total material energy is manifest, and from this arise the three types of egotism, which are the original sources from which all demigods [controlling deities], senses and material elements expand.
PURPORT
The three types of egotism ( ahaṅkāra ) are technically known as  vaikārika ,  taijasa  and  tāmasa . The  mahat-tattva  is situated within the heart, or  citta , and the predominating Deity of the  mahat-tattva  is Lord Vāsudeva ( Bhāg.  3.26.21). The  mahat-tattva  is transformed into three divisions: (1)  vaikārika , egotism in goodness ( sāttvika-ahaṅkāra ), from which the eleventh sense organ, the mind, is manifest and whose predominating Deity is Aniruddha ( Bhāg.  3.26.27-28); (2)  taijasa , or egotism in passion ( rājasa-ahaṅkāra ), from which the senses and intelligence are manifest and whose predominating Deity is Lord Pradyumna ( Bhāg.  3.26.29-31); (3)  tāmasa , or egotism in ignorance, from which sound vibration ( śabda-tanmātra ) expands. From the sound vibration, the sky ( ākāśa ) is manifest and, the senses, beginning with the ear, are also manifest ( Bhāg.  3.26.32). Of these three types of egotism, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is the predominating Deity. In the philosophical discourse known as the  Sāṅkhya-kārikā , it is stated:  sāttvika ekādaśakaḥ pravartate vaikṛtād ahaṅkārāt —bhūtādes tanmātraṁ tāmasa-taijasādy-u
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সর্ব তত্ত্ব মিলি’ স্বজিল ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গণ। অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড, তার নাছিক গণন ॥ ২৭৭ ॥