Just as a spider brings forth from its heart its web and emits it through its mouth, the Supreme Lord, made of supreme bliss, made of the Vedas, taking support of ether, appears as parā sound made of prāṇa, and then creates and destroys, by his mind which produces the consonants and the manifest Vedas--which are unlimited in sound and meaning, decorated with the consonants, vowels, sibilants, and semivowels emanating from the subtle sound oṁ, and which are filled with a variety of languages and meters, each four syllables longer than the previous. Kṛṣṇa explains how the Vedas arise from himself starting from the form of parā made of prāṇa in three verses. Just as a spider emits a spider web from his heart through his mouth, the Lord as my portion, antaryāmī, composed of supreme bliss, composed of the Vedas consisting of all knowledge by my own energy, taking support of the ether, appears in the mūlādhāra-cakra of Hiraṇyagarbha (Brahmā). Previously it was said sa eṣa jīvo vivara-prasūtiḥ prāṇena ghoṣeṇa guhāṁ praviṣṭaḥ: I enter the mulādhāra-cakra of Brahmā along with the prāṇa phase of subtle parā sound. (SB 11.12.17) The Lord becomes like the ghoṣa or nāda, which becomes prāṇa. Becoming that prāṇa, the Lord creates the śruti predominated by vaikharī (bṛhatīm) by the mind. First he creates parā, then paśyantī (then madhyamā), and finally vaikharī. The Lord creates this and then destroys it. Describing the cause, mind is denoted in detail. The mind produces the consonant and other sounds. The Vedas are further described. They show many paths. The Vedas are ornamented with consonants and other sounds by contact with the throat and chest arising from oṁ. This oṁ is not the audible form, but a subtle form within the heart, being without limbs. Consonants are sounds beginning with ka and ending with ma. There are sixteen vowels (svara) starting with a. Sibilants (uṣma) are śa, ṣa, sa and ha. Semi-vowels are ya, ra, la and va. The Veda is filled with variety, with Vedic and common language. It has meters, each with four more syllables than the previous one. The Veda has no end in terms of sound and no limit in terms of meaning (ananta-pāram).