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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 24]
master and the  Vedas  become his second father and mother. According to the Vedic system of marriage for producing children, every man and woman was enlightened in spiritual knowledge, and at the time of their combination to produce a child, everything was scrutinizingly and scientifically done.
TEXT 16
वेदाहमाद्यं पुरुषमवतीर्णं स्वमायया । भूतानां शेवधिं देहं विभ्राणं कपिलं मुने ॥१६॥
vedāham ādyaṁ puruṣam avatīrṇaṁ sva-māyayā bhūtānāṁ śevadhiṁ dehaṁ bibhrāṇaṁ kapilaṁ mune
veda—know; aham—I; ādyam—the original; puruṣam—enjoyer; avatīrṇam—incarnated; sva-māyayā—by His own internal energy; bhūtānām—of all the living entities; śevadhim—the bestower of all desired, who is just like a vast treasure; deham—the body; bibhrāṇam—assuming; kapilam—Kapila Muni; mune—O sage Kardama.
TRANSLATION
O Kardama, I know that the original Supreme Personality of Godhead has now appeared as an incarnation by His internal energy. He is the bestower of all desired by the living entities, and He has now assumed the body of Kapila Muni.
PURPORT
In this verse we find the words  puruṣam avatīrṇaṁ sva-māyayā . The Supreme Personality of Godhead is everlastingly, eternally, the form of  puruṣa , the predominator or enjoyer, and when He appears He never accepts anything of this material energy. The spiritual world is a manifestation of His personal, internal potency, whereas the material world is a manifestation of His material or differentiated energy. The word  sva-māyayā , by His own internal potency, indicates that whenever the Supreme Personality of Godhead descends, He comes in His own energy. He may assume the body of a human being, but that body is not material. In  Bhagavad-gītā , therefore, it is clearly stated that only fools and rascals,  mūḍhas , consider the body of Kṛṣṇa to be the body of a common human being. The word  śevadhim  means that He is the original