The entire mobile and immobile universe is thus the outcome of the combination of these five great essences. When Destruction sets in, the infinite variety of creatures resolve themselves into those five, and once more, when Creation begins, they originate from the same five.
इत्येतन्मयमेवैतत् सर्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम्। प्रलये च तमभ्येति तस्मादुद्दिश्यते पुनः॥