Text 26] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 189
“Throughout all the energies of material nature there is the hand of the
Supreme Lord as the final superintendent. Due to this supreme cause
only, the activities of material nature appear planned and systematic, and
all things regularly evolve.”
TEXT 26
BOTAN F Aaa Toraataat: |
getmenata dtdarra | fang 124i!
kala-vrttya tu mayayam
guna-mayyam adhoksajah
purusenatma-bhitena
viryam adhatta viryavan

kdla—the eternal time; urttya—by the influence of; tu—but; mayayam—
in the external energy; gupa-mayydm—in the qualitative modes of nature;
adhoksajah—the Transcendence; purusena—by the purusa incarnation;
atma-bhiitena—who is the plenary expansion of the Lord; viryam—the
seeds of the living entities; adhatta—impregnated; viryavan—the Supreme
Living Being.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Living Being in His feature as the transcendental purusa
incarnation, who is the Lord’s plenary expansion, impregnates the material
nature of three modes, and thus by the influence of eternal time the
living entities appear.

PURPORT

The offspring of any living being is born after the father impregnates
the mother with semina and the living entity floating in the semina of the
father takes the shape of the mother’s form. Similarly, mother material
nature cannot produce any living entity from her material elements unless
and until she is impregnated with living entities by the Lord Himself. That
is the mystery of the generation of the living entities. This impregnating
process is performed by the first purusa incarnation, Karanarnavasayi
Visnu. Simply by His glance over material nature, the whole matter is
accomplished.

We should not understand the process of impregnation by the Per-
sonality of Godhead in terms of our conception of sex. The omnipotent
Lord can impregnate just by His eyes, and therefore He is called all-
