Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 11, Chapter 03, Text 14

SB 11.3.14

hrta-rupam tu tamasa
vayau jyotih praliyate
hrta-sparso ’vakasena
vayur nabhasi liyate
kalatmana hrta-gunam
nabha atmani liyate
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
Fire, deprived of its form by darkness, dissolves into the element air. When the air loses its quality of touch by the influence of space, the air merges into that space. When space is deprived of its tangible quality by the Supreme Soul in the form of time, space merges into false ego in the mode of ignorance.

 

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