Verse 333

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। ॥ ३३३ ॥

In plain words

Taken in its own nature, this one is the efficient cause of the world — the maker. Taken with the upādhi in the foreground, the very same one is the material cause — the stuff the world is made of.

Close to the Sanskrit

By the predominance of its own [nature], this one is the efficient cause also of the world; then, by the predominance of the adjunct, it becomes the material cause.