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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 26 ]
a pastime. The Lord's pastimes and the conditioned living entity's acceptance of karmic reaction are not on the same level.
TEXT 9
देवहूतिरुवाच
ग्रहतेः पुरुषस्यापि लक्षणं पुरुषोत्तम । ब्रूहि कारणयोरस्य सदसच्च यदात्मकम् ॥ ९ ॥
devahūtir uvāca prakṛteḥ puruṣasyāpi lakṣaṇam puruṣottama brūhi kāraṇayor asya sad-asac ca yad-ātmakam
devahūtiḥ uvāca —Devahūti said;  prakṛteḥ —of His energies;  puruṣasya —of the Supreme Person;  api —also;  lakṣaṇam —characteristics;  puruṣa-uttama —O Supreme Personality of Godhead;  brūhi —kindly explain;  kāraṇayoḥ —causes;  asya —of this creation;  sat-asat —manifest and unmanifest;  ca —and;  yat-ātmakam —consisting of which.
TRANSLATION
Devahūti said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, kindly explain the characteristics of the Supreme Person and His energies because both of these are the causes of this manifest and unmanifest creation.
PURPORT
Prakṛti , or material nature, is connected with both the Supreme Lord and the living entities, just as a woman is connected with her husband as a wife and with her children as a mother. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord says that He impregnates mother nature with children, living entities, and thereafter all species of living entities become manifest. The relationship of all living entities with material nature has been explained. Now an understanding of the relationship between material nature and the Supreme Lord is sought by Devahūti. The product of that relationship is stated to be the manifest and unmanifest material world. The unmanifest material