Text 28] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 19}
PURPORT

In due course of time, the impregnated material energy was manifested
first as the total material ingredients. Every thing takes its own time to fruc-
tify, and therefore the word kala-coditat, influenced by time, is used herein.
The mahat-tattva is the total consciousness because a portion of it is
represented in everyone as the intellect. The mahat-tattva is directly
connected with the supreme consciousness of the Supreme Being, but
still it appears as matter. The mahat-tattva or shadow of pure conscious-
ness is the germinating place of all creation. It is pure goodness with the
slight addition of the material mode of passion, and therefore activity
is generated from this point.

TEXT 28
MASGTYTAMAM ATA OAR: |
area Setar Arar Talc!

so ‘py amsa-guna-kalatma
bhagavad-drsti-gocarah

atmanant vyakarod atma
VISLASVAS VEL sisrhsava

sah—mahat-lattva; api—also, arisa—purusa plenary expansion; gura—
chiefly the quality of ignorance; kala—the duration of time; a@atma—ftull
consciousness; bhagavat—the Personality of Godhead; drsti-gocarah—range
of sight; atmanam—many different forms; vvakarot— differentiated; atma—
reservoir; visvas ya—the would-be entities; asya—of this; sisrksayad— generates
the false ego.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter the mahat-tattva differentiated itself into many different
forms as the reservoir of the would-be entities. The mahat-tattva is chiefly
in the mode of ignorance, and it generates the false ego. It is a plenary
expansion of the Personality of Godhead with full consciousness of
creative principles and time for fructification.

PURPORT

The mahat-tattva is the via medium between pure spirit and material
existence. It is the junction of matter and spirit wherefrom the false ego
of the living entily is generated. All living entities are differentiated parts
and parcels of the Personality of Godhead. Under the pressure of false ego,
the conditioned souls, although parts and parcels of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, claim to be the enjoyers of material nature. This
false ego is the binding force of material existence. The Lord again and
