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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 2]
bhūta-bhṛn na ca bhūta-stho mamātmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ
“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities, and although I am everywhere, My Self is the very source of creation.”  Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma.  Everything is an expansion of Brahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet everything is not the Supreme Godhead, and He is not everywhere. Everything rests upon Him and yet does not rest upon Him. This can be explained only through the  acintya-bhedābheda  philosophy. Such truths cannot be understood, however, unless one is a pure devotee, for the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.55),  bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ : “One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service.” Even though the Lord cannot be understood by ordinary persons, this principle should be understood from the statement of the  śāstras .
A pure devotee is always transcendentally situated because of executing nine different processes of  bhakti-yoga  ( śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevenaṁ arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyaṁ ātma-nivedanaṁ ). Thus situated in devotional service, a devotee, although in the material world, is not in the material world. Yet a devotee always fears, “Because I am associated with the material world, so many contaminations affect me.” Therefore he is always alert in fear, which gradually diminishes his material association.
Symbolically, mother Devakī’s constant fear of Kaṁsa was purifying her. A pure devotee should always fear material association, and in this way all the  asuras  of material association will be killed, as the  ṣaḍ-garbhāsuras  were killed by Kaṁsa. It is said that from the mind, Marīci appears. In other words, Marīci is an incarnation of the mind. Marīci has six sons: Kāma, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada and Mātsarya (lust, anger, greed, illusion, madness and envy). The Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in pure devotional service. This is confirmed in the  Vedas :  bhaktir evainaṁ darśayati . Only  bhakti  can bring one in contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared from the womb of Devakī, and therefore Devakī symbolically