He takes the womb, He is the womb, He is the one who resides in the womb, He is the one who enters the place of the womb, He becomes that very one —Him, the Lord, the sages declare thus.

Yoni (womb/source) is not just the feminine but the receptive principle of all manifestation. Brahman is simultaneously the one who fertilizes, the womb, the one who resides in it, and the one who emerges from it. This apparent paradox expresses the simultaneity of the transcendent and the immanent. In our yoga practice, when we understand that our own existence is at once the product and the producer, limitation becomes freedom. The īśāna (Lord) does not govern from outside but is the inherent intelligence in every process of manifestation.