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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 33]
and still You put Your body within the abdomen of a common woman like me. To me, that is most astonishing.”
TEXT 3
स एव विश्वस्य भवान् विधत्ते
गुणप्रवाहेण विभक्तवीर्यः ।
सर्गाद्यनीहोऽवितथाभिसन्धि-
रात्मेश्वरोऽतर्क्यसहस्रशक्तिः ॥ ३ ॥
sa eva viśvasya bhavān vidhatte guṇa-pravāheṇa vibhakta-vīryaḥ sargādy anīho 'vitathābhisandhir ātmeśvaro 'tarkya-sahasra-śaktiḥ
saḥ —that very person;  eva —certainly;  viśvasya —of the universe;  bhavān —You;  vidhatte —carry on;  guṇa-pravāheṇa —by the interaction of the modes;  vibhakta —divided;  vīryaḥ —Your energies;  sarga-ādi —the creation and so on;  anīhaḥ —the nondoer;  avitatha —not futile;  abhisandhiḥ —Your determination;  ātma-īśvaraḥ —the Lord of all living entities;  atarkya —inconceivable;  sahasra —thousands;  śaktiḥ —possessing energies.
TRANSLATION
My dear Lord, although personally You have nothing to do, You have distributed Your energies in the interactions of the material modes of nature, and for that reason the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation take place. My dear Lord, You are self-determined and are the Supreme Personality of Godhead for all living entities. For them You created this material manifestation, and although You are one, Your diverse energies can act multifariously. This is inconceivable to us.
PURPORT
The statement made in this verse by  D evahūti that the Absolute Truth has many diverse energies although He personally has nothing to do is confirmed in the  Upaniṣads . There is no one greater than Him or on an equal level with Him, and everything is completely done by His energy, as if by nature. It is understood herein, therefore, that the modes of material nature are entrusted to different manifestations like Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva.