PLATE FIVE
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is beyond the creation of this material world, for He is the source of the material qualities and creation.” ( p.221 ) In the beginning of the creation, the Lord expands Himself in the form of the  puruṣa  incarnation, Mahā-Viṣṇu. Lying in the Causal Ocean, the Supreme Personality of Godhead glances over His unmanifest material energy (shown here as Durgā, the personification of material nature). At that time the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are impregnated into material nature.