गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

yojayec ca tri-rūpatā "The creator divides in half each of the three elements. Three of these halves He then divides in half again. Then He joins the smaller halves to the larger halves. In this way the compound elements, made of three parts, are created." This is like the process called pañcī-karaṇa. It cannot be said that this creation of threefold compound elements is within the power of the demigod Brahmā. That is so because Brahmā was born after the universal egg had been created from these threefold compound elements made of fire, water, and earth. This is corroborated by Manu-saṁhitā (1.9): tasminn aṇḍe 'bhavad brahmā sarva-loka-pitāmahaḥ "Brahmā, the grandfather of all the worlds, was born in the egg of the universe. Therefore the creation of names and forms and the creation of threefold compound elements were both done by the same creator. It should not be thought, because of the sequence apparently described in the text, that the creation of names and forms preceded the creation of threefold compound elements. The creation of threefold compound elements came first, and only after that creation the creation of name and forms was effected. The universal egg cannot be created by the elements of fire, water and earth before those elements are compounded in the three ways. That this is not possible is described in the following words of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.5.32-33): yadaite 'saṅgatā bhāvā bhūtendriya-mano-guṇāḥ yadāyatana-nirmāṇe ne śekur brahma-vittama "O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind, and modes of nature, are not assembled.* tadā saṁhatya cānyonyaṁ bhagavac-chakti-coditāḥ sad-sattvam upādāya cobhayam sasṛjur hy adaḥ "Thus when all these became assembled by the force of the energy of the