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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
are  eka-niṣṭha , or absolutely attached to the devotional service of the Lord. Therefore they have practically no time to see the benefits of material facilities. Because of their realization of their spiritual identity, they are more concerned with spiritual emancipation than with material comforts.
TEXT 31
नारायणे भगवति तदिदं विश्वमाहितम् । गृहीतमायोरुगुणः सर्गादावगुणः स्वतः ॥३१॥
nārāyaṇe bhagavati tad idam viśvam āhitam grhīta-māyoru-guṇaḥ sargādāv aguṇaḥ svataḥ
nārāyaṇe—unto Nārāyaṇa; bhagavati—the Personality of Godhead; tat idam—all these material manifestations; viśvam—all the universes; āhitam—situated; grhīta—having accepted; māyā—material energies; uru-guṇaḥ—greatly powerful; sarga-ādau—in the matter of creation, maintenance and destruction; aguṇaḥ—without affinity for the material modes; svataḥ—self-sufficiently.
TRANSLATION
All the material manifestations of the universes are therefore situated in His powerful material energies, which He accepts self-sufficiently, although He is eternally without affinity for the material modes.
PURPORT
The question put by Nārada before Brahmā concerning the sustenance of the material creation is thus answered. Material actions and reactions, as the material scientist can superficially observe, are not basically ultimate truth in regards to creation, maintenance, and destruction. But the material energy is a potency of the Lord which is displayed in time, accepting the three qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in the forms of Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva. The material energy thus works under the supreme spell of His Lordship, although He is always transcendental to all such material