Verses

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.6

"He lies down on His own heart spread in the form of the sky, and thus placing the whole creation in that space, He expands Himself into many living entities, which are manifested as different species of life. He does not have to endeavor for His maintenance, because He is the master of all mystic powers and the proprietor of everything. Thus He is distinct from the living entities." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/6

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.8

"The Supreme King of all kings has created different planets and places of habitation where living entities are situated in terms of the modes of nature and work, and He has created their different kings and rulers." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/8

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.11

"Who in human society can be satisfied without hearing sufficient talk of the Lord, whose lotus feet are the sum total of all places of pilgrimage and who is worshiped by great sages and devotees? Such topics can cut off one’s bondage to family affection simply by entering the holes of one’s ears." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/11

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.23-24

"The Personality of Godhead, the master of all living entities, existed prior to the creation as one without a second. It is by His will only that creation is made possible and again everything merges in Him. This Supreme Self is symptomized by different names." "The Lord, the undisputed proprietor of everything, was the only seer. The cosmic manifestation was not present at that time, and thus He felt imperfect without His plenary and separated parts and parcels. The material energy was dormant, whereas the internal potency was manifested." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/24

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.25

"The Lord is the seer, and the external energy, which is seen, works as both cause and effect in the cosmic manifestation. O greatly fortunate Vidura, this external energy is known as māyā or illusion, and through her agency only is the entire material manifestation made possible." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.26

"The Supreme Living Being in His feature as the transcendental puruṣa incarnation, who is the Lord’s plenary expansion, impregnates the material nature of three modes, and thus by the influence of eternal time the living entities appear." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/26

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.40

"O Father, O Lord, O Personality of Godhead, the living entities in the material world can never have any happiness because they are overwhelmed by the three kinds of miseries. Therefore they take shelter of the shade of Your lotus feet, which are full of knowledge, and we also thus take shelter of them." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/40

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.50

"You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are unchanged. O Lord, You have no source or superior. You have impregnated the external energy with the semen of the total living entities, yet You are unborn." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/50

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.6.3-3.6.5 & 3.6.7

"Thus when the Personality of Godhead entered into the elements by His energy, all the living entities were enlivened into different activities, just as one is engaged in his work after awakening from sleep." "When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśvarūpa body of the Lord, came into existence." "As the Lord, in His plenary portion, entered into the elements of the universal creation, they transformed into the gigantic form in which all the planetary systems and all movable and immovable creations rest." "The total energy of the mahat-tattva, in the form of the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa, divided Himself by Himself into the consciousness of the living entities, the life of activity, and self-identification, which are subdivided into one, ten and three respectively." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/6/3 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/6/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/6/5 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/6/7

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.6.39

"The wonderful potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is bewildering even to the jugglers. That potency is unknown even to the self-sufficient Lord, so it is certainly unknown to others." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/6/39

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.4

"By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature, the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/4

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.5

"The pure soul is pure consciousness and is never out of consciousness, either due to circumstances, time, situations, dreams or other causes. How then does he become engaged in nescience?" https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/5