From those five primal elements are created all creatures, and into those five great elements all creatures resolve themselves, again and again, like the numberless waves of the Ocean rising from the Ocean and merging into that which causes thein.
ततः सृष्टानि भूतानि तानि यान्ति पुनः पुनः। महाभूतानि भूतेभ्य ऊर्मयः सागरे यथा॥