Shloka 47
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
न शान्ता नापि घोरास्ते न मूढाश्चाविशेषतः ।
भूततन्मात्रसर्गोऽयमहङ्कारात्तु तामसात् ॥
na śāntā nāpi ghorāste na mūḍhāścāviśeṣataḥ / bhūtatanmātrasargo 'yamahaṅkārāttu tāmasāt
न शान्तानि न घोराणि न च मोहात्मकानि; अविशेषस्वभावत्वात्। स्थूलभूतानां तन्मात्रसृष्टिरियं तामसादहङ्कारात् प्रवर्तते॥
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FAQs
The text assigns different products of creation to different modes/aspects: the subtle sensory potentials are traced to tāmasa ahaṅkāra. Ethically/psychologically, it implies that ‘objectification’ and material fixation arise when consciousness operates under obscuring inertia.
Sarga: it specifies the causal source (tāmasa ahaṅkāra) for the tanmātras within the primary creation framework.
Ahaṅkāra is the pivot where unity appears as multiplicity. Labeling the tanmātra stream as tāmasa suggests that the first step toward ‘matter’ is a veiling (tamas) that makes the subtle appear as externalizable qualities.