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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.16
"Manu continued: My dear King Dhruva, it is simply by the illusory material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and by the interaction of the three modes of material nature that creation, maintenance and annihilation take place." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/16
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.17
"My dear Dhruva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is uncontaminated by the material modes of nature. He is the remote cause of the creation of this material cosmic manifestation. When He gives the impetus, many other causes and effects are produced, and thus the whole universe moves, just as iron moves by the integrated force of a magnet." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.18
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable supreme energy, time, causes the interaction of the three modes of material nature, and thus varieties of energy become manifest. It appears that He is acting, but He is not the actor. He is killing, but He is not the killer. Thus it is understood that only by His inconceivable power is everything happening." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.19
"My dear Dhruva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ever existing, but in the form of time He is the killer of everything. He has no beginning, although He is the beginning of everything, nor is He ever exhaustible, although everything is exhausted in due course of time. The living entities are created through the agency of the father and killed through the agency of death, but He is perpetually free of birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.20
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His feature of eternal time, is present in the material world and is neutral towards everyone. No one is His ally, and no one is His enemy. Within the jurisdiction of the time element, everyone enjoys or suffers the result of his own karma, or fruitive activities. As, when the wind blows, small particles of dust fly in the air, so, according to one’s particular karma, one suffers or enjoys material life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.21
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is all-powerful, and He awards the results of one’s fruitive activities. Thus, although one living entity’s duration of life is very small whereas that of another is very great, He is always in His transcendental position, and there is no question of lessening or increasing His duration of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.22
"The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of karma. Others say it is due to nature, others due to time, others due to fate, and still others say that it is due to desire." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.23
"The Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect sensory endeavor, nor is He subject to direct experience. He is the master of varieties of energies, like the full material energy, and no one can understand His plans or actions; therefore it should be concluded that although He is the original cause of all causes, no one can know Him by mental speculation." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.25-26
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates this material world, maintains it, and annihilates it in due course of time, but because He is transcendental to such activities, He is never affected by ego in such action or by the modes of material nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.30
"Thus regaining your natural position and rendering service unto the Supreme Lord, who is the all-powerful reservoir of all pleasure and who lives in all living entities as the Supersoul, you will very soon forget the illusory understanding of “I” and “my.”" https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.32
"A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/11/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.12.4
"Misidentification of oneself and others as “I” and “you” on the basis of the bodily concept of life is a product of ignorance. This bodily concept is the cause of repeated birth and death, and it makes us go on continuously in material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/12/4