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potent. Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each
and every function of the other parts. This is confirmed in the Brahma-
samhita (Bs. 5.32): angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. In Bhagavad-gita
also (14.3), the same principle is confirmed: mama yonir mahad brahma
tasmin garbham dadhamy aham. When the cosmic creation is manifested,
the living entities are directly supplied from the Lord; they are never
products of material nature. Thus, no scientific advancement of material
science can ever produce a living being. That is the whole mystery of the
material creation. The living entities are foreign to matter, and thus they
cannot be happy unless they are situated in the same spiritual life as the
Lord. The mistaken living being, out of forgetfulness of this original
condition of life, unnecessarily wastes time trying to become happy in the
material world. The whole Vedic process is to remind one of this essential
feature of life. The Lord offers the conditioned soul a material body for
his so-called enjoyment, but if one does not come to his senses and enter
into spiritual consciousness, the Lord again puts him in the unmanifested
condition as it existed in the beginning of the creation. The Lord is
described here as viryavan, or the greatest: potent being, because He
impregnates material nature with innumerable living entities who are
conditioned from time immemorial.

TEXT 27

TASHA FETAL AAS |
RICCI CTAD ICED ESE CIGCHIEA|

tato “bhavan mahat-lattvam
avyak tal kala-coditat

viyanatma “tma-deha-stham
visa vyanijans tamonudah

tatah—thereafler; abhaval—came into existence; mahat—supreme; tatt-
vani—sum total; avyaktalt—lrom the unmanifested; kala-coditat—by the
interaction of time; vyfdndtma—unalloyed goodness; dtma-deha-stham—
situated on the bodily self; visvam complete universes; vyanjan—mani-
fested; tamonudah—the supreme light.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter, influenced by the interactions of eternal time, the supreme
sum total of matter called the mahat-tattva became manifested, and in
this mahat-tattva the unalloyed goodness, the Supreme Lord, sowed the
seeds of universal manifestation out of His own body.
