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matter come from the supreme living entity; therefore, being the source of both,
that supreme living entity, Krsna, is described in Vedanta-sitra as janmady asya
yatah (1.1), or the original source of everything, sarva-karana-kdranam. This is
further explained in the following verse.
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BIS THe AVG ATVB Fad 298
daivat ksubhita-dharminyam
svasyam yonau parah puman
adhatta viryam sd ‘suta
mahat-tattvamm hiranmayam
SYNONYMS

daivat—from time immemorial; ksubhita-dharminyam—the material nature,
which is subjected to agitation; svasyam—which belongs to the Supreme as one
of His energies; yonau—in the womb from which the living entity takes his birth;
parah pumadn—the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead; adhatta—im-
pregnated; viryam—semina; sé—that material nature; asGta—produced; mahat-
tattvam—the total material energy; hiraamayam—the original source for the
emanation of varieties of material things.

TRANSLATION

“‘From time immemorial, after agitating the material nature into three
qualities, the Supreme Personality of Godhead places the semina of innumer-
able living entities within the womb of that material nature. Thus material
nature gives birth to the total material energy known as the hiranmaya-mahat-
tattva, the original symbolic representation of the cosmic manifestation.’

PURPORT

This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.26.19). Lord Kapila is explaining
to His mother the relationship between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and
material nature. He is informing her how the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
the original cause of the living entities, who emanated from material nature. Over
and above the twenty-eight elements of the material creation is the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, the cause of all causes. Life comes not from matter but from
