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Vidura's Talks with Maitreya
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“Throughout all the energies of material nature there is the hand of the Supreme Lord as the final superintendent. Due to this supreme cause only, the activities of material nature appear planned and systematic, and all things regularly evolve.”
TEXT 26
कालश्चत्या तु मायायां गुणमय्यामघोक्षजः । पुरुषेणात्मभूतेन वीर्यमाघच वीर्यवान् ॥२६॥
kāla-vṛttyā tu māyāyām guṇa-mayyām adhokṣajaḥ puruṣeṇātma-bhūtena vīryam ādhatta vīryavān
kāla —the eternal time;  vṛttyā —by the influence of;  tu —but;  māyāyām —in the external energy;  guṇa-mayyām —in the qualitative modes of nature;  adhokṣajaḥ —the Transcendence;  puruṣeṇa —by the  puruṣa  incarnation;  ātma-bhūtena —who is the plenary expansion of the Lord;  vīryam —the seeds of the living entities;  ādhatta —impregnated;  vīryavān —the Supreme Living Being.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Living Being in His feature as the transcendental  puruṣa  incarnation, who is the Lord's plenary expansion, impregnates the material nature of three modes, and thus by the influence of eternal time the living entities appear.
PURPORT
The offspring of any living being is born after the father impregnates the mother with semina and the living entity floating in the semina of the father takes the shape of the mother's form. Similarly, mother material nature cannot produce any living entity from her material elements unless and until she is impregnated with living entities by the Lord Himself. That is the mystery of the generation of the living entities. This impregnating process is performed by the first  puruṣa  incarnation,  Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu . Simply by His glance over material nature, the whole matter is accomplished.
We should not understand the process of impregnation by the Personality of Godhead in terms of our conception of sex. The omnipotent Lord can impregnate just by His eyes, and therefore He is called all-