Al every new Creation, the qualities start into being in the lateral order, and (when Destruction comes) they merge in a reverse order, like the waves of the ocean disappearing in the ocean from which they originate.
अनुलोमेन जायन्ते लीयन्ते प्रतिलोमतः। गुणा गुणेषु सततं सागरस्योर्मयो यथा।॥