Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3.13

vayuna hrta-gandha bhuh

salilatvaya kalpate

salilam tad-dhrta-rasam

jyotistvayopakalpate

SYNONYMS

vayuna -- by the wind; hrta -- deprived; gandha -- of its quality of aroma; bhuh -- the element earth; salilatvaya kalpate -- becomes water; salilam -- water; tat -- by that (the same element, wind); hrta-rasam -- deprived of its quality of taste; jyotistvaya upakalpate -- becomes fire.

TRANSLATION

Deprived of its quality of aroma by the wind, the element earth is transformed into water; and water, deprived of its taste by that same wind, is merged into fire.

PURPORT

Srimad-Bhagavatam gives several descriptions of the material creation, by which air is expanded from ether, fire from air, water from fire, and earth from water. Now, in the reverse order, the creation is wound up. Thus earth merges back into the water from which it came, and water similarly merges into fire.

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