Text 36] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 197

adhattambho rasa-mayam
kala-mayamsa-yogatah

anilena—by the air; anvitam—interacted; jyotih—clectricity; vikurvat—
being transformed; paraviksitam—being glanced over by the Supreme;
adhatta—created; ambhah rasa-mayam—water with taste; kala—eternal
time; mayarnsa—ex ternal energy; yogatah—by a mixture.

TRANSLATION

When electricity was surcharged in the air and was glanced over by the
Supreme, at that time, by a mixture of eternal time and external energy,
there occurred the creation of water and taste.

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Jyolisambho’nusamsrstam
vikurvad brahma-viksitam

mahim gandha-gunam adhat
kala-mayamsa-yogatah

jyotisa—electricily; ambhah—water; anusarisrstam—thus — created;
vikurvat—due to transformation; brahma—the Supreme; viksitam—so glanced
over; mahim—the earth; gandha—smell; gundm—qualification; ddhat—was
created; kdla—cternal time; ma@ya—external energy; arhsa— partially; yoga-
tah— by intermixture.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter the water produced from electricity was glanced over by
the Supreme Personality of Godhead and mixed with eternal time and
external energy. Thus it was transformed into the earth, which is
qualified primarily by smell.

PURPORT

From the descriptions of the physical elements in the above verses it is
clear that in all stages the glance of the Supreme is needed with the other
additions and alterations. In every transformation, the last finishing touch
is the glance of the Lord, who acts as a painter does when he mixes
different colors to transform them into a particular color. When one
element mixes with another, the number of its qualities increases. For
