Text 52]
Fundamental Principles of Material Nature
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received within matter, and the combination of matter gradually develops into a complete body. The same principle exists in the universal creation: the ingredients were present, but only when the Lord entered into the material elements was matter actually agitated. That is the cause of creation. We can see this in our ordinary experience. Although we may have clay, water and fire, the elements take the shape of a brick only when we labor to combine them. Without the living energy, there is no possibility that matter can take shape. Similarly, this material world does not develop unless agitated by the Supreme Lord as the  virāṭa-puruṣa .  Yasmād udatiṣṭhad asau virāṭ : by His agitation, space was created, and the universal form of the Lord also manifested therein.
TEXT 52
एतदण्डं विशेषाख्यं क्रमश्चद्वैदंशोत्तरैः । 
  तोयादिभिः परिवृतं प्रधानेनावृतैर्बहिः । 
  यत्र लोकवितानोऽयं रूपं मगवतो हरेः ॥५२॥
etad aṇḍam viśeṣākhyam 
  krama-vṛddhair daśottaraiḥ 
  toyādibhiḥ parivṛtam 
  pradhānenāvṛtair bahiḥ 
  yatra loka-vitāno 'yam 
  rūpam bhagavato hareḥ
etat—this; aṇḍam—egg; viśeṣa-ākhyam—called viśeṣa; krama—one after another; vṛddhaiḥ—increased; daśa—ten times; uttaraiḥ—greater; toya-ādibhiḥ—by water and so on; parivṛtam—enveloped; pradhānena—by pradhāna; āvṛtaiḥ—covered; bahiḥ—on the outside; yatra—where; loka-vitānaḥ—the extension of the planetary systems; ayam—this; rūpam—form; bhagavataḥ—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; hareḥ—of Lord Hari.
TRANSLATION
This universal egg, or the universe in the shape of an egg, is called the manifestation of material energy. Its layers of water, air, fire, sky, ego and mahat-tattva increase in thickness one after another. Each layer is ten times bigger than the previous one, and the final outside layer is covered by pradhāna. Within this egg is the universal form of Lord Hari, of whose body the fourteen planetary systems are parts.