TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, You are the only Supreme Person, the cause of all causes. Before the creation of this material world, Your material energy remains in a dormant condition. When Your material energy is agitated, the three qualities-namely, goodness, passion and ignorance-act, and as a result the total material energy-egotism, ether, air, fire, water, earth and all the various demigods and saintly persons-becomes manifest. Thus the material world is created.