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ŚB 10.40.2

Devanagari

भूस्तोयमग्नि: पवनं खमादि-
र्महानजादिर्मन इन्द्रियाणि ।
सर्वेन्द्रियार्था विबुधाश्च सर्वे
ये हेतवस्ते जगतोऽङ्गभूता: ॥ २ ॥

Text

bhūs toyam agniḥ pavanaṁ kham ādir
mahān ajādir mana indriyāṇi
sarvendriyārthā vibudhāś ca sarve
ye hetavas te jagato ’ṅga-bhūtāḥ

Synonyms

bhūḥ — earth; toyam — water; agniḥ — fire; pavanam — air; kham — ether; ādiḥ — and its source, false ego; mahān — the mahat-tattva; ajā — the total material nature; ādiḥ — her source, the Supreme Lord; manaḥ — the mind; indriyāṇi — the senses; sarva-indriya — of all the senses; arthāḥ — the objects; vibudhāḥ — the demigods; ca — and; sarve — all; ye — which; hetavaḥ — causes; te — Your; jagataḥ — of the universe; aṅga — from the body; bhūtāḥ — generated.

Translation

Earth; water; fire; air; ether and its source, false ego; the mahat-tattva; the total material nature and her source, the Supreme Lord’s puruṣa expansion; the mind; the senses; the sense objects; and the senses’ presiding deities — all these causes of the cosmic manifestation are born from Your transcendental body.