Following the quality of Goodness, Brahman, otherwise called Parameshthi, then began to create the universe. In the primeval Lotus that was effulgent like the Sun, two drops of water had been grown by Narayana that were fraught with great merit. The illustrious Narayana, without beginning and without end, and above destruction, cast his eyes on those two drops of water,
सत्त्वस्थः परमेष्ठी स ततो भूतगणान् सृजन्॥ पूर्वमेव च पद्मस्य पत्रे सूर्यांशुसप्रभे। नारायणकृतौ विन्दू अपामास्तां गुणोत्तरौ॥ तावपश्यत् स भगवाननादिनिधनोऽच्युतः।