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TEXT 3 mama yonir mahad brahma
SYNONYMS  mama--My;
yonih--source of birth; mahat--the total material existence;
brahma--supreme; tasmin--in that; garbham--pregnancy;
dadhami--create; aham--I; sambhavah--possibility;
sarva-bhutanam--of all living entities; tatah--thereafter;
bhavati--becomes; bharata--O son of Bharata.
TRANSLATION The total
material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that
Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living beings,
O son of Bharata.
PURPORT This is an explanation
of the world: everything that takes place is due to the combination of
ksetra and ksetra-jna, the body and the spirit soul. This
combination of material nature and the living entity is made possible by
the Supreme God Himself. The mahat-tattva is the total cause of
the total cosmic manifestation, and because in the total substance of the
material cause there are three modes of nature, it is sometimes called
Brahman. The Supreme Personality impregnates that total substance, and
thus innumerable universes become possible. This total material substance,
the mahat-tattva, is described as Brahman in the Vedic literature:
tasmad etad brahma nama-rupam annam ca jayate. Into that Brahman
the seeds of the living entities are impregnated by the Supreme Person.
The twenty-four elements, beginning from earth, water, fire and air, are
all material energy, called mahad brahma, or the great Brahman,
the material nature. As is explained in the Seventh Chapter, beyond this
there is another, superior nature--the living entity. In material nature
the superior nature is mixed by the will of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, and thereafter all living entities are born of this material nature.
The scorpion
lays its eggs in piles of rice, and sometimes it is said that the scorpion
is born out of rice. But the rice is not the cause of the scorpion. Actually,
the eggs were laid by the mother. Similarly, material nature is not the
cause of the birth of the living entities. The seed is given by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and they only seem to come out as products of material
nature. Thus every living entity, according to his past activities, has
a different body, created by this material nature, and the entity can enjoy
or suffer according to his past deeds. The Lord is the cause of all the
manifestations of living entities in this material world.
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