The influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is felt through the time factor which arouses the fear of death in the soul misled by the false ego (False ego: the false ego or material ego, is the force which chains the incarnate being to material existence. It is the force which pushes the incarnate being to identify with his body, to want to dominate matter and material nature, and to monopolize all material possessions), in contact with material nature.

My dear mother, you the daughter of Svayambhuva Manu, know that the time factor, as I have described it, represents the Supreme Lord, from whom creation proceeds by setting in motion the unmanifested or neutral nature.

Through the unfolding of His potencies, the Supreme Lord adjusts all these different elements, dwelling Himself within all that is as the Supersoul, and outside as time.

After the Supreme Lord has introduced His internal potency into the bosom of material nature, the material nature releases the all-embracing intelligence of the cosmos, known as Hiranmaya. All this takes place within the material energy when it is set in motion under the influence of the destiny of the conditioned souls.

Then, after manifesting the variety, the resplendent mahat-tattva (the global material energy composing the cosmic manifestation) which contains within itself all the galaxies, which is at the origin of all cosmic manifestations and which resists the action of time at the moment of annihilation, devours the darkness which covered its brilliance at the moment of dissolution.

Virtue, that stage where the Divine Person is clearly and soberly perceived and which is generally referred to as Vasudeva, or consciousness, then becomes manifest in the universal form.

After the manifestation of the universal form, these characteristics appear together. Just as pure water, which has not mixed with earth, is sweet, clear and limpid, pure consciousness is perfectly serene, crystalline and unadulterated.

The material ego proceeds from the universal form, itself issued from the self-energy of the Lord. This false ego is found to be fundamentally endowed with three powers of action, according to virtue, passion and ignorance; and it is from these three forms of material ego that the mind, the senses of perception, the organs of action and the gross elements manifest.

The triple ahankara, which represents the source of the gross elements, the senses and the mind, is identical with these because it is their origin. It is also known under the name of Sankarsana, which is none other than Sri Ananta himself with His thousand heads.

This false ego is defined as the doer, as the instrument and as the effect. It is also called serene, active or inert according to whether it is influenced by virtue, passion or ignorance.

From the false ego in virtue another transformation occurs, from which the mind is born; and it is thoughts and reflections that awaken desires.