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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 7]
of the modes of material nature and are therefore perverted in appearance. However, the Lord's body and the Lord Himself are one and the same, and when the Lord's activities are displayed, they are certainly nondifferent from the Lord in all respects. The conclusion is that persons who consider the Lord's activities material are certainly mistaken.
TEXT 3
कीदायामुद्यमोऽर्मस्य कामश्चिक्रीडिषान्यतः । स्वतस्तृप्तस्य च कथं निवृत्तस्य सदान्यतः ॥ ३ ॥
krīḍāyām udyamo 'rbhasya   kāmaś cikrīḍiṣānyataḥ   svatas-tṛptasya ca kathaṁ   nivṛttasya sadānyataḥ
krīḍāyām —in the matter of playing;  udyamaḥ —enthusiasm;  arbhasya —of the boys;  kāmaḥ —desire;  cikrīḍiṣa —willingness to play;  anyataḥ —with other boys;  svataḥ-tṛptasya —for one who is self-satisfied;  ca —also;  katham —what for;  nivṛttasya —one who is detached;  sadā —for all time;  anyataḥ —otherwise.
TRANSLATION
Boys are enthusiastic to play with other boys or with various diversions because they are encouraged by desire. But there is no possibility of such desire for the Lord because He is self-satisfied and detached from everything.
PURPORT
Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second, there is no possibility that anything besides Himself can exist. He expands Himself by His energies in multiforms of self-expansions and separated expansions as well, just as fire expands itself by heat and light. Since there is no other existence besides the Lord Himself, the Lord's association with anything manifests His association with Himself. In  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.4) the Lord says:
mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagadavyakta-mūrtinā   mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ
“The complete manifestation of the cosmic situation is an expansion of the Lord Himself in His impersonal feature. All things are situated in Him