These verses explain how the soul comes into the material world and is placed within the modes of material nature
Material nature is the mother, supplying living-entity with the body (14.3)
The Lord puts him there by His potent glance and thus impregnates the material nature with the seed
aMaterial nature is the mother, supplying living-entity with the body (14.3)
The total material substance, called Brahman is the source of birth
Lord impregnates that Brahman with living entities
bAnalogy — Scorpion lays its eggs in rice, but the rice is not the cause of the scorpion
This refutes that material nature is the cause of the birth of living entities
Actual seed is given by the Supreme Lord himself
cText 14.3 gives an explanation of the world as follows:
Everything that takes place is due to combination of ksetra (body) and ksetra-jna (spirit soul)
This combination of the living-entity is made possible by the Supreme God himself
dMahat-tattva — It is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestation;
Total substance of the material cause, in which there are three modes of material nature, is sometimes called Brahman
e‘Mahad-Brahma’ — Great Brahman refers to the material nature
Constituted by 24 elements which constitute the inferior energy
This Living entity constitutes the superior energy
fLiving entities are seen everywhere, on all the planets (14.4)
On earth, even within water and fire
Even on the highest planet, where Brahma is situated