# Cc. Madhya 20.276 ## Text > tabe mahat-tattva haite trividha ahaṅkāra > yāhā haite devatendriya-bhūtera pracāra ## Synonyms *tabe*—thereafter; *mahat*-*tattva* *haite*—from the total material energy; *tri*-*vidha*—three kinds of; *ahaṅkāra*—egotism; *yāhā* *haite*—from which; *devatā*—of predominating deities; *indriya*—of the senses; *bhūtera*—and of material elements; *pracāra*—expansion. ## Translation **"First the total material energy is manifest, and from this arise the three types of egotism, which are the original sources from which all demigods [controlling deities], senses and material elements expand.** ## Purport The three types of egotism (*ahaṅkāra*) are technically known as *vaikārika, taijasa* and *tāmasa.* The *mahat-tattva* is situated within the heart, or *citta,* and the predominating Deity of the *mahat-tattva* is Lord Vāsudeva [[sb/3/26/21|(Bhāg. 3.26.21)]]. The *mahat-tattva* is transformed into three divisions/ (1) *vaikārika,* egotism in goodness (*sāttvika-ahaṅkāra*), from which the eleventh sense organ, the mind, is manifest and whose predominating Deity is Aniruddha [[sb/3/26/27|(Bhāg. 3.26.27-28)]]; (2) *taijasa,* or egotism in passion (*rājasa-ahaṅkāra*), from which the senses and intelligence are manifest and whose predominating Deity is Lord Pradyumna [[sb/3.26.29|(Bhāg. 3.26.29-31)]]; (3) *tāmasa,* or egotism in ignorance, from which sound vibration (*śabda-tanmātra*) expands. From the sound vibration, the sky (*ākāśa*) is manifest and, the senses, beginning with the ear, are also manifest [[sb/3/26/32|(Bhāg. 3.26.32)]]. Of these three types of egotism, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is the predominating Deity. In the philosophical discourse known as the *Sāṅkhya-kārikā,* it is stated: *sāttvika ekādaśakaḥ pravartate vaikṛtād ahaṅkārāt-bhūtādes tan-mātraṁ tāmasa-taijasādy-ubhayam.*