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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
yasmāt —from whom;  aṇḍam —universal globes;  virāṭ —and the gigantic universal form;  jajñe —appeared;  bhūta —elements;  indriya —senses;  guṇa-ātmakaḥ —qualitative;  tat dravyam —the universes and the universal form, etc.;  atyagāt —surpassed;  viśvam —all the universes;  gobhiḥ —by the rays;  sūryaḥ —the sun;  iva —like;  ātapan —distributed rays and heat.
TRANSLATION
From that Personality of Godhead, all the universal globes and the universal form with all material elements, qualities, and senses are generated. Yet He is aloof from such material manifestations, like the sun, which is separate from its rays and heat.
PURPORT
The supreme truth has been ascertained in the previous verse as  puruṣa  or the  puruṣottama , the Supreme Person. The Absolute Person is the  īśvara  or the supreme controller by His different energies. The  ekapād-vibhūti  manifestation of the material energy of the Lord is just like one of the many mistresses of the Lord, by whom the Lord is not so much attracted, as indicated in the language of the  Gītā  ( bhinnā prakṛtiḥ ). But the region of the  tripād-vibhūti , being a pure spiritual manifestation of the energy of the Lord, is, so to speak, more attractive to Him. The Lord, therefore, generates the material manifestations by impregnating the material energy, and then, within the manifestation, He expands Himself as the gigantic form of the  viśva-rūpa . The  viśva-rūpa , as it was shown to Arjuna, is not the original form of the Lord. The original form of the Lord is the transcendental form of Puruṣottama, or Kṛṣṇa Himself. It is very nicely explained herein that He expands Himself just like the sun. The sun expands itself by its terrible heat and rays, yet the sun is always aloof from such rays and heat. The impersonalist takes into consideration the rays of the Lord without any information of the tangible, transcendental, eternal form of the Lord, known as Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa, in His supreme personal form, with two hands and flute, is bewildering for the impersonalists who can accommodate only the gigantic  viśva-rūpa  of the Lord. They should know that the rays of the sun are secondary to the sun, and similarly the impersonal gigantic form of the Lord is also secondary to the personal form as Puruṣottama. The  Brahma-saṁhitā  confirms this statement as follows: