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Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed
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TEXT 39
स एष आद्यः पुरुषः कल्पे कल्पे सृजत्यजः । 
  आत्मात्मन्यात्मनात्मानं स संयच्छति पातिच ॥३९॥
sa eṣa ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ 
  kalpe kalpe srjaty ajaḥ 
  ātmātmany ātmanātmānam 
  sa saṁyacchati pāti ca
saḥ—He; eṣaḥ—the very; ādyaḥ—the original Personality of Godhead; puruṣaḥ—the Mahā-Viṣṇu incarnation, a plenary portion of Govinda, Lord Kṛṣṇa; kalpe kalpe—in each and every millennium; srjati—creates; ajaḥ—the unborn; ātma—self; ātmani—upon the self; ātmanā—by His own self; ātmānam—own self; saḥ—He; saṁyacchati—absorbs; pāti—maintains; ca—also.
TRANSLATION
“That Supreme original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, expanding His plenary portion as Mahā-Viṣṇu, the first incarnation, creates this manifested cosmos, but He is unborn. The creation, however, takes place in Him, and the material substance, as well as the manifestations, are all Himself, which He maintains for some time and again absorbs into Himself again.
PURPORT
The creation is nondifferent from the Lord, and still He is not in the creation. This is explained in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as follows:
mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā 
  mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ  
  (Bg. 9.4)
The impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth is also a form of the Lord called  avyakta-mūrti .  Mūrti  means form, but because His impersonal feature is inexplicable by our limited senses, He is the  avyakta-mūrti  form, and in that inexplicable form of the Lord the whole creation is resting, or, in other words, the whole creation is the Lord Himself, and the creation is