As men can light thousands of lamps from but a single lamp, similarly Nature, by change, multiplies into thousands of existent objects the (three) qualities of Purusha.
यथा दीपसहस्राणि दीपान्माः प्रकुर्वते। प्रकृतिस्तथा विकुरुते पुरुषस्य गुणान् बहून्॥