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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
| Canto 2, Ch. 7
existence, the devotee is eternally situated there, as already discussed in the previous verse.
TEXT 50
सोऽयं तेऽभिहितस्तात् भगवान् विश्वभावनः । समासेन हरेनन्यदन्यस्मात् सदसच्च यत् ॥५०॥
so'yaṁ te'bhihitas tāta bhagavān viśva-bhāvanaḥ samāsena harer nānyad anyasmāt sad-asac ca yat
saḥ—that; ayam—the same; te—unto you; abhihitaḥ—explained by me; tāta—my dear son; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; viśva-bhāvanaḥ—the creator of the manifested worlds; samāsena—in brief; hareḥ—without Hari, the Lord; na—never; anyat—anything else; anyasmāt—being the cause of; sat—manifested or phenomenal; asat—noumenal; ca—and; yat—whatever there may be.
TRANSLATION
My dear son, I have now explained in brief the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is creator of the manifested worlds. Without Him, Hari, the Lord, there are no other causes of the phenomenal and noumenal existences.
PURPORT
As we have generally the experience of the temporary, material world and conditioned souls trying to lord it over the material worlds, so Brahmājī explained to Nāradadeva that this temporary world is the work of the external potency of the Lord, and the conditioned souls struggling here for existence are the marginal potency of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead, and but for Him, Hari, the Supreme Lord, there is no other cause for all these phenomenal activities. He is the primeval cause of all causes. This does not mean, however, that the Lord Himself is distributed impersonally. He is aloof from all these interactions of the external and marginal potencies. In the  Bhagavad-gītā , it is confirmed