In plain words
Little by little, at first, the white ants are born; soon they gnaw and eat up the whole of the timber. Evil qualities seem slight at the start; later they bring ruin to anyone, however great.
When there is a heap of embers at the root of smoke, when there is a driver who runs the train, when there is a master for the automatic light, must there not be One to create the world?
Students!
This whole form of the moving and the unmoving, which comes before our eyes as the seen, is made up of the five elements. This world is nothing but the radiance of the five elements. Another name for this very world is ‘the seen’. This is the universe. That is, with many forms, many limbs and many feelings, God Himself takes on many forms in this world. In the Puruṣa Sūkta this very thing is ‘Sahasraśīrṣāpuruṣaḥ sahasrākṣa sahasrapāt’: so it has been described. With a thousand eyes, a thousand heads, a thousand feet, a thousand hands and a thousand instruments, this world has come forth.
This world is the very bond of effect and cause
The universe is the effect. Viṣṇu is the cause. This world is the very bond of effect and cause. In the effect, God takes on a vast form. In the cause, He takes on a very subtle form. But this effect and this cause, both of them, are the form of God itself!