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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 5]
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the Personality of Godhead glanced over the sky, partly mixed with eternal time and external energy, and thus developed the touch sensation, from which the air in the sky was produced.
PURPORT
All material creations take place from subtle to gross. The entire universe has developed in that manner. From the sky developed the touch sensation, which is a mixture of eternal time, the external energy and the glance of the Personality of Godhead. The touch sensation developed into the air in the sky. Similarly, all other gross matter also developed from subtle to gross: sound developed into sky, touch developed into air, form developed into fire, taste developed into water, and smell developed into earth.
TEXT 34
अनिलोऽपि विकुर्वाणो नभसोरुबलान्वितः । ससर्ज रूपतन्मात्रं ज्योतिर्लोकस्य लोचनम् ॥३४॥
anilo 'pi vikurvāṇo nabhasoru-balānvitaḥ sasarja rūpa-tan-mātram jyotir lokasya locanam
anilaḥ—air; api—also; vikurvāṇaḥ—being transformed; nabhasā—sky; uru-bala-anvitaḥ—extremely powerful; sasarja—created; rūpa—form; tat- mātram—sense perception; jyotiḥ—electricity; lokasya—of the world; locanam—light to see.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the extremely powerful air, interacting with the sky, generated the form of sense perception, and the perception of form transformed into electricity, the light to see the world.
TEXT 35
अनिलेनान्वितं ज्योतिर्विकुर्वत्परवीक्षितम् । आघचाम्मो रसमयं कालमायांश्योगतः ॥३५॥
anilenānvitam jyotir vikurvat paravīkṣitam