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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 5]
Lord, surely they are in want. A person who has no God consciousness may live in opulence for the time being due to his past virtuous acts, but if one forgets his relationship with the Lord, certainly he must await the stage of starvation by the law of the powerful material nature. One cannot escape the vigilance of the powerful material nature unless he leads a God conscious or devotional life.
TEXT 50
त्वं नः सुराणामसि सान्वयानां
कूटस्य आद्यः पुरुषः पुराणः ।
त्वं देव शत्त्रयां गुणकर्मयोनो
रेतस्त्वजायां कविमादधेऽजः ॥५०॥
tvam naḥ surāṇām asi sānvayānām
kūṭa-stha ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ
tvam deva śaktyām guṇa-karma-yonau
retas tvajāyām kavim ādadhe 'jaḥ
tvam —Your Lordship;  naḥ —of us;  surāṇām —of the demigods;  asi —You are;  sānvayānām —with different gradations;  kūṭa-sthaḥ —one who is unchanged;  ādyaḥ —without any superior;  puruṣaḥ —the founder person;  purāṇaḥ —the oldest, who has no other founder;  tvam —You;  deva —O Lord;  śaktyām —unto the energy;  guṇa-karma-yonau —unto the cause of the material modes and activities;  retaḥ —semina of birth;  tvajāyām —for begetting;  kavim —the total living entities;  ādadhe —initiated;  ajaḥ —one who is unborn.
TRANSLATION
You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are unchanged. O Lord, You have no source or superior. You have impregnated the external energy with the semina of the total living entities, yet You are unborn.
PURPORT
The Lord, the Original Person, is the father of all other living entities, beginning from Brahmā, the personality from whom all other living entities in different gradations of species are generated. Yet the supreme father has no other father. Every one of the living entities of all grades, up to Brahmā, the original creature of the universe, is begotten by one