गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

yojayec ca tri-rūpatā
"The creator divides in half each of the three elements. Three of these halves He
then divides in half again. Then He joins the smaller halves to the larger halves. In
this way the compound elements, made of three parts, are created."
This is like the process called pañcī-karaṇa. It cannot be said that this creation
of threefold compound elements is within the power of the demigod Brahmā. That
is so because Brahmā was born after the universal egg had been created from these
threefold compound elements made of fire, water, and earth. This is corroborated
by Manu-saṁhitā (1.9):
tasminn aṇḍe 'bhavad brahmā
sarva-loka-pitāmahaḥ
"Brahmā, the grandfather of all the worlds, was born in the egg of the universe.
Therefore the creation of names and forms and the creation of threefold
compound elements were both done by the same creator. It should not be thought,
because of the sequence apparently described in the text, that the creation of
names and forms preceded the creation of threefold compound elements. The
creation of threefold compound elements came first, and only after that creation
the creation of name and forms was effected. The universal egg cannot be created
by the elements of fire, water and earth before those elements are compounded in
the three ways. That this is not possible is described in the following words of
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.5.32-33):
yadaite 'saṅgatā bhāvā
bhūtendriya-mano-guṇāḥ
yadāyatana-nirmāṇe
ne śekur brahma-vittama
"O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take
place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind, and modes
of nature, are not assembled.*
tadā saṁhatya cānyonyaṁ
bhagavac-chakti-coditāḥ
sad-sattvam upādāya
cobhayam sasṛjur hy adaḥ
"Thus when all these became assembled by the force of the energy of the