13. Thinking itself to be thus transformed to a gross and material form, as that of Virát the macrocosm (who combines the whole material universe in himself); it views itself as bright and spotted, as the disk of the moon with the black spot upon it.
14. It then finds in its person resembling the lunar disk, the sudden union of the five senses of perception, appearing in him of themselves.
15. These five senses are then found to have the five organs of sensation for their inlets, by which the soul perceives the sensation of their respective objects.
16. Then the Purusha or first male power known as Virát, manifests himself in five other forms said to be the members of his person; and these are the sun, the sides, water, air, and the land, which are the objects of five senses said before. He then becomes of endless forms according to the infinity of objects of his knowledge: (i.e. the thoughts in this mind). He is thus manifested in his objective forms, but is quite unknown to us in his subjective or causal form, which is unchangeable and undecaying.
17. He sprang up at first from the supreme being, as its mental energy or the mind; and was manifest in the form of the calm and clear firmament, with the splendour of eternal delight.
18. He was not of the five elemental forms, but was the soul of the five elements, he is called the Virát Purusha—the macrocosm of the world, and the supreme lord of all. (He was the collective body of all individual ones).
19. He rises spontaneously of himself, and then subsides in himself; he expands his own essence all over the universe, and at last contracts the whole in himself.
20. He rose in a moment with his power of volition, and with all his desires in himself; he rises of his own will at first, and after lasting long in himself, dissolves again in himself.
21. He is the selfsame one with the mind of God, and he is the great body of the material world; and his body is called the puryashtaka or container of the eight elementary principles, as also the átiváhika or of the spiritual form.
22. He is as the subtile and gross air, manifest as the sky, but invisible as the subtile ether; he is both within and as well as without everything, and is yet nothing in himself.