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daivat ksubhita-dharminyam
svasyam yonau parah puman
adhatta viryam sa ’suta
mahat-tattvam hiranmayam
SYNONYMS
daivat—from time immemorial; ksubhita-dharminyam—the material nature, which is subjected to agitation; svasyam—which belongs to the Supreme as one of His energies; yonau—in the womb from which the living entity takes his birth; parah puman—the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead; adhatta—impregnated; viryam—semina; sa—that material nature; asuta—produced; mahat-tattvam—the total material energy; hiranmayam—the original source for the emanation of varieties of material things " ’From time immemorial, after agitating the material nature into three qualities, the Supreme Personality of Godhead places the semina of innumerable living entities within the womb of that material nature.
Thus material nature gives birth to the total material energy known as the hiranmaya-mahat-tattva, the original symbolic representation of the cosmic manifestation.’
PURPORT
This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.26.19).
Lord Kapila is explaining to His mother the relationship between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and material nature.
He is informing her how the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of the living entities, who emanated from material nature.
Over and above the twenty-eight elements of the material creation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes.
Life comes not from matter but from life itself.
As explained in the Vedas: nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13).
The Supreme Lord is the original source of life.