Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.32-34
"The Lord, as Supersoul, pervades all things, just as fire permeates wood, and so He appears to be of many varieties, though He is the absolute one without a second." "The Supersoul enters into the bodies of the created beings who are influenced by the modes of material nature and causes them to enjoy the effects of these modes by the subtle mind." "Thus the Lord of the universes maintains all planets inhabited by demigods, men and lower animals. Assuming the roles of incarnations, He performs pastimes to reclaim those in the mode of pure goodness." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/32 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.1
"Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universes." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.3
"It is believed that all the universal planetary systems are situated on the extensive body of the puruṣa, but He has nothing to do with the created material ingredients. His body is eternally in spiritual existence par excellence." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.20
"The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos, and still He is aloof from it. From Him only has this cosmic manifestation emanated, in Him it rests, and unto Him it enters after annihilation. Your good self knows all about this. I have given only a synopsis." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.21-22
"They said: Here He is, the original Personality of Godhead as we definitely remember Him. He alone existed before the manifested creation of the modes of nature, and in Him only, because He is the Supreme Lord, all living beings merge, as if sleeping at night, their energy suspended." "The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the guidance of material nature. By His own potency, material nature is empowered to re-create." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.24
"This gigantic manifestation of the phenomenal material world as a whole is the personal body of the Absolute Truth, wherein the universal resultant past, present and future of material time is experienced." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.14
"Unless the gross materialist develops a sense of loving service unto the Supreme Lord, the seer of both the transcendental and material worlds, he should remember or meditate upon the universal form of the Lord at the end of his prescribed duties." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.23
"The transcendentalists are concerned with the spiritual body. As such, by the strength of their devotional service, austerities, mystic power and transcendental knowledge, their movements are unrestricted, within and beyond the material worlds. The fruitive workers, or the gross materialists, can never move in such an unrestricted manner." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.6-8
"I beg to know from you how the Personality of Godhead, by His personal energies, creates these phenomenal universes as they are, which are inconceivable even to the great demigods." "Kindly describe how the Supreme Lord, who is all-powerful, engages His different energies and different expansions in maintaining and again winding up the phenomenal world in the sporting spirit of a player." "O learned brāhmaṇa, the transcendental activities of the Lord are all wonderful, and they appear inconceivable because even great endeavors by many learned scholars have still proved insufficient for understanding them." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.5-6
"As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also you yourself, by employment of your self-sufficient energy, create without any other’s help." "Whatever we can understand by the nomenclature, characteristics and features of a particular thing — superior, inferior or equal, eternal or temporary — is not created from any source other than that of Your Lordship, thou so great." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/5 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.25
"From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely the sky, is generated. Its subtle form is the quality of sound, exactly as the seer is in relationship with the seen." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.26-29
"Because the sky is transformed, the air is generated with the quality of touch, and by previous succession the air is also full of sound and the basic principles of duration of life: sense perception, mental power and bodily strength. When the air is transformed in course of time and nature’s course, fire is generated, taking shape with the sense of touch and sound. Since fire is also transformed, there is a manifestation of water, full of juice and taste. As previously, it also has form and touch and is also full of sound. And water, being transformed from all variegatedness on earth, appears odorous and, as previously, becomes qualitatively full of juice, touch, sound and form respectively." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.26-29