After the mind came the moon, then intelligence, and then Brahma. Then appeared the false ego, Siva, consciousness and finally the celestial being governing it.

When the celestial beings and the divinities governing the various senses were thus manifested, they wanted to awaken the source of their existence. But not succeeding, they returned one after the other to the body of the universal form, to awaken it.

The celestial being of fire entered His mouth with the organ of speech, but the universal form did not awaken. Then the celestial being of wind entered His nostrils with the sense of smell, but the universal form still refused to awaken.

The celestial beings who were masters of skin, herbs and aromatic plants entered the skin of the universal form with the hairs covering the body, but the cosmic Being still did not awaken. The celestial being of water entered His reproductive organ with the faculty of procreation, without succeeding in awakening Him either.

The celestial being of death entered His anus with the power of evacuation, but this also did not succeed in stimulating the universal form. The celestial being Indra then entered His hands with the power of taking and letting go of objects, but He still did not get up.

Sri Visnu entered His feet with the power of movement, but in vain. The rivers entered His blood vessels with the blood and its power of circulation, but still the Cosmic Being did not move.

The ocean entered His belly with hunger and thirst, but the Cosmic Being refused even then to rise. Then the celestial being of the Moon entered His heart with the mind, but still in vain.

Brahma also entered His heart with intelligence, but without any more success in convincing the Cosmic Being to rise. And Rudra himself came to His heart with the false ego, but without any more success.

However, when the inner master, the celestial being governing consciousness, entered the heart with reason, at that very moment the Cosmic Being rose from the causal waters.

When a man is asleep, all his material powers, the vital energy, the senses of perception, the senses of action, the mind and intelligence, cannot awaken him. Only the Supreme Soul can help him.

Therefore, through devotion, detachment and the development of spiritual knowledge acquired by concentrating on devotional service, one has to meditate on this Supreme Soul present in this same body although simultaneously separated from it.