Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Texts 8.3.22-24
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यस्य ब्रह्मादयो देवा वेदा लोकाश्चराचरा: ।
नामरूपविभेदेन फल्ग्व्या च कलया कृता: ॥ २२ ॥
यथार्चिषोऽग्ने: सवितुर्गभस्तयो
निर्यान्ति संयान्त्यसकृत् स्वरोचिष: ।
तथा यतोऽयं गुणसम्प्रवाहो
बुद्धिर्मन: खानि शरीरसर्गा: ॥ २३ ॥
स वै न देवासुरमर्त्यतिर्यङ्
न स्त्री न षण्ढो न पुमान् न जन्तु: ।
नायं गुण: कर्म न सन्न चासन्
निषेधशेषो जयतादशेष: ॥ २४ ॥
yasya brahmādayo devā
vedā lokāś carācarāḥ
nāma-rūpa-vibhedena
phalgvyā ca kalayā kṛtāḥ
yathārciṣo ’gneḥ savitur gabhastayo
niryānti saṁyānty asakṛt sva-rociṣaḥ
tathā yato ’yaṁ guṇa-sampravāho
buddhir manaḥ khāni śarīra-sargāḥ
sa vai na devāsura-martya-tiryaṅ
na strī na ṣaṇḍho na pumān na jantuḥ
nāyaṁ guṇaḥ karma na san na cāsan
niṣedha-śeṣo jayatād aśeṣaḥ
The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates His minor parts and parcels, the jīva-tattva, beginning with Lord Brahmā, the demigods and the expansions of Vedic knowledge [Sāma, Ṛg, Yajur and Atharva] and including all other living entities, moving and nonmoving, with their different names and characteristics. As the sparks of a fire or the shining rays of the sun emanate from their source and merge into it again and again, the mind, the intelligence, the senses, the gross and subtle material bodies, and the continuous transformations of the different modes of nature all emanate from the Lord and again merge into Him. He is neither demigod nor demon, neither human nor bird or beast. He is not woman, man, or neuter, nor is He an animal. He is not a material quality, a fruitive activity, a manifestation or nonmanifestation. He is the last word in the discrimination of “not this, not this,” and He is unlimited. All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead!
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