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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 11]
When He descends on the material world by His causeless mercy to different living beings, He does so by His own potency, He is not subject to any condition of the material modes of nature, and He descends as He is originally. The mental speculators misunderstand Him as the Supreme Person, and they consider His impersonal features as inexplicable Brahman to be all. Such a conception is also the product of conditioned life, because they cannot go beyond their own personal capacity. Therefore, one who considers the Lord on the level of one's limited potency is only a common man. Such a man cannot be convinced that the Personality of Godhead is always unaffected by the modes of material nature. He cannot understand that the sun is always unaffected by infectious matter. The mental speculators compare everything from the standpoint of experimental knowledge of their own selves. Thus when the Lord is found to act like an ordinary person in matrimonial bondage, they consider Him to be like one of them, without considering that the Lord can marry at once sixteen thousand wives or more. Due to a poor fund of knowledge they accept one side of the picture while disbelieving the other. This means that due to ignorance only they always think of Lord Kṛṣṇa as like themselves and make their own conclusions, which are absurd and unauthentic from the version of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
TEXT 38
एतदीशनमीशस्य प्रकृतिस्थोऽपि तद्गुणैः । न युज्यते सदाऽऽत्मस्थैर्यथा बुद्धिस्तदाश्रया ॥३८॥
etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho 'pi tad-guṇaiḥ na yujyate sadā "tma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā
etat—  this;  īśanam—  divinity;  īśasya—  of the Personality of Godhead;  prakṛti-sthaḥ—  being in contact with material nature;  api—  in spite of;  tat-guṇaiḥ—  by the qualities;  na—  never;  yujyate—  is affected;  sadā ātma-sthaiḥ—  by those who are situated in eternity;  yathā—  as is;  buddhiḥ—  intelligence;  tat—  the Lord;  āśrayā—  those who are under the shelter of.
TRANSLATION
This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead: He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with them.