Verse 40

³²From the dark kind as it altered, urged by the strength of the Bhagavan, the subtle element of sound came to be; from that, the sky, and hearing, which reaches sound. ³³The wise know the marks of sound: that it carries a meaning, that it points to one who speaks, and that it is the subtle element of the sky. ³⁴These are the workings that mark the sky: it gives room to beings, it makes an outside and an inside, and it is the seat of the breath, of the senses and of the self. ³⁵From the sky, from the subtle element of sound, as it altered by the going of time, touch came to be; and from that, the wind, and the skin, which gathers touch.

³⁶Soft and hard, cold and hot: this is what makes touch touch, and it is the subtle element of the wind. ³⁷Moving things, gathering them together, arriving, carrying things and sounds along, and being the very self of all the senses: these mark the wind by its work. ³⁸From the wind, from the subtle element of touch, stirred by fate, form came to be; out of that rose fire, and the eye, which takes in form. ³⁹That a thing has shape, that it has quality, that what shows itself stands in a form, and being fire at all: these, good woman, are the workings of fire and of the subtle element of form. ⁴⁰Giving light, cooking, drinking and eating, and the crushing of cold: these are the workings of fire, and drying up as well, and hunger and thirst.