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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 5]
potent. Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts. This is confirmed in the  Brahma-saṁhitā  (Bs. 5.32):  aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti . In  Bhagavad-gītā  also (14.3), the same principle is confirmed:  mama yonir mahad brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham . When the cosmic creation is manifested, the living entities are directly supplied from the Lord; they are never products of material nature. Thus, no scientific advancement of material science can ever produce a living being. That is the whole mystery of the material creation. The living entities are foreign to matter, and thus they cannot be happy unless they are situated in the same spiritual life as the Lord. The mistaken living being, out of forgetfulness of this original condition of life, unnecessarily wastes time trying to become happy in the material world. The whole Vedic process is to remind one of this essential feature of life. The Lord offers the conditioned soul a material body for his so-called enjoyment, but if one does not come to his senses and enter into spiritual consciousness, the Lord again puts him in the unmanifested condition as it existed in the beginning of the creation. The Lord is described here as  vīryavān , or the greatest potent being, because He impregnates material nature with innumerable living entities who are conditioned from time immemorial.
TEXT 27
ततोऽमवन् महरुचयव्यक्तात्कालचोदितात् । विज्ञानात्माऽऽत्मदेहस्थं विश्वं व्यञ्जस्तमोनुदः॥ २७॥
tato 'bhavan mahat-tattvam avyaktāt kāla-coditāt vijñānātmā 'tma-deha-sthaṁ viśvaṁ vyañjaṁs tamonudaḥ
tataḥ—thereafter; abhavat—came into existence; mahat—supreme; tattvam—sum total; avyaktāt—from the unmanifested; kāla-coditāt—by the interaction of time; vijñānātmā—unalloyed goodness; ātma-deha-stham—situated on the bodily self; viśvam—complete universes; vyañjan—manifested; tamonudaḥ—the supreme light.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, influenced by the interactions of eternal time, the supreme sum total of matter called the  mahat-tattva  became manifested, and in this  mahat-tattva  the unalloyed goodness, the Supreme Lord, sowed the seeds of universal manifestation out of His own body.