Text 15]
Conversation Between Maitreya and Vidura
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touch, form, taste, and smell. The third group is the five sense organs for acquiring knowledge: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. The fourth group is the five working senses: speech, hands, feet, anus and genitals. Some say that there are five groups of five. One group is the sense objects, one is the five elements, one is the five sense organs for acquiring knowledge, another is the senses for working, and the fifth group is the five deities who control these divisions.
TEXT 14
तानि चैकैकशः स्रष्टुमसमर्थानि भौतिकम् । संहत्य दैवयोगेन हैममण्डमवासृजन् ॥१४॥
tāni caikaikaśaḥ sraṣṭum asamarthāni bhautikam saṁhatya daiva-yogena haimam aṇḍam avāsṛjan
tāni —those elements;  ca —and;  eka-ekaśaḥ —separately;  sraṣṭum —to produce;  asamarthāni —unable;  bhautikam —the material universe;  saṁhatya —having combined;  daiva-yogena —with the energy of the Supreme Lord;  haimam —shining like gold;  aṇḍam —globe;  avāsṛjan —produced.
TRANSLATION
Separately unable to produce the material universe, they combined with the help of the energy of the Supreme Lord and were able to produce a shining egg.
TEXT 15
सोऽशयिष्टाब्धसलिले आण्डकोशो निरात्मकः । साग्रं वै वर्षसाहस्रमन्ववात्सीत्तमीश्वरः ॥१५॥
so 'śayiṣṭābdhi-salile āṇḍakośo nirātmakaḥ sāgram vai varṣa-sāhasram anvavātsīt tam īśvaraḥ
saḥ —it;  aśayiṣṭa —lay;  abdhi-salile —on the waters of the Causal Ocean;  āṇḍa-kośaḥ —egg;  nirātmakaḥ —in an unconscious state;  sāgram —a little