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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.30
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 30
- sa evedaṁ sasarjāgre
- bhagavān ātma-māyayā
- sad-asad-rūpayā cāsau
- guṇamayāguṇo vibhuḥ
saḥthat — that; evacertainly — certainly; idamthis — this; sasarjacreated — created; agrebefore — before; bhagavānthe Personality of Godhead — the Personality of Godhead; ātmaby His personal potency-māyayāby His personal potency — by His personal potency; satthe cause — the cause; asatthe effect — the effect; rūpayāby forms — by forms; caand — and; asauthe same Lord — the same Lord; guṇain the modes of material nature-mayain the modes of material nature — in the modes of material nature; aguṇaḥtranscendental — transcendental; vibhuḥthe Absolute — the Absolute.
In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal energy.
The position of the Lord is always transcendental because the causal and effectual energies required for the creation of the material world were also created by Him. He is unaffected, therefore, by the qualities of the material modes. His existence, form, activities and paraphernalia all existed before the material creation.* He is all-spiritual and has nothing to do with the qualities of the material world, which are qualitatively distinct from the spiritual qualities of the Lord.