shat -- six; iti -- thus; atra -- in this theory; api -- also; bhutani -- the elements; panca -- five; shashthah -- the sixth; parah -- the transcendental; puman -- Supreme Personality; taih -- with those (five gross elements); yuktah -- conjoined; atma -- from Himself; sambhutaih -- created; srishtva -- sending forth; idam -- this creation; samupavisat -- He entered within it.

Other philosophers state that there are six elements -- the five physical elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and the sixth element, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That Supreme Lord, endowed with the elements that He has brought forth from Himself, creates this universe and then personally enters within it.