While thus floating upon the waters, that foremost of all beings, that resort of every sort of energy and splendour, created consciousness, the first-born of all beings in the universe.
सर्वतेजोमयस्तस्मिशयानः पुरुषोत्तमः। सोऽग्रजं सर्वभूतानां संकर्षणमकल्पयत्॥