namah-I offer my respectful obeisances unto You; avyaktaya-who are never seen by material eyes; suksmaya-transcendental; pradhana-purusaya-the Supreme Person; ca-also; catuh-vimsat-twenty-four; guna-jnaya-the knower of the elements; guna-saṅkhyana-of the saṅkhya-yoga system; hetave-the original cause.