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Vidura's Talks with Maitreya
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PURPORT
In due course of time, the impregnated material energy was manifested first as the total material ingredients. Everything takes its own time to fructify, and therefore the word  kāla-coditāt , influenced by time, is used herein. The  mahat-tattva  is the total consciousness because a portion of it is represented in everyone as the intellect. The  mahat-tattva  is directly connected with the supreme consciousness of the Supreme Being, but still it appears as matter. The  mahat-tattva  or shadow of pure consciousness is the germinating place of all creation. It is pure goodness with the slight addition of the material mode of passion, and therefore activity is generated from this point.
TEXT 28
सोऽप्यंशगुणकालत्मा मगवद्दृष्टिगोचरः ।
आत्मानं व्यक्तरोदात्मा विश्वस्यास्य सिमृक्षया ॥२८॥
so'py aṁśa-guṇa-kālātmā bhagavad-dṛṣṭi-gocaraḥ ātmānam vyakarod ātmā viśvasyāsya siṣṛkṣayā
saḥ—mahat-tattva; api—also; aṁśa—puruṣa  plenary expansion;  guṇa—  chiefly the quality of ignorance;  kāla—  the duration of time;  ātmā—  full consciousness;  bhagavat—  the Personality of Godhead;  dṛṣṭi-gocaraḥ—  range of sight;  ātmānam—  many different forms;  vyakarot—  differentiated;  ātmā—  reservoir;  viśvasya—  the would-be entities;  asya—  of this;  siṣṛkṣayā—  generates the false ego.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the  mahat-tattva  differentiated itself into many different forms as the reservoir of the would-be entities. The  mahat-tattva  is chiefly in the mode of ignorance, and it generates the false ego. It is a plenary expansion of the Personality of Godhead with full consciousness of creative principles and time for fructification.
PURPORT
The  mahat-tattva  is the via medium between pure spirit and material existence. It is the junction of matter and spirit wherefrom the false ego of the living entity is generated. All living entities are differentiated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead. Under the pressure of false ego, the conditioned souls, although parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, claim to be the enjoyers of material nature. This false ego is the binding force of material existence. The Lord again and