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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 15]
and spirit—exist eternally as potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The potent entity is the Supreme Person. Since the spiritual energy, the living being, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, desires to enjoy this material world, the Lord gives him a chance to accept different types of material bodies and enjoy or suffer in different material conditions. Factually, the spiritual energy, the living entity who desires to enjoy material things, is manipulated by the Supreme Lord. The so-called father and mother have nothing to do with the living entity. As a result of his own choice and  karma , the living being takes different bodies through the agency of so-called fathers and mothers.
TEXT 8
देहदेहिविभागोऽयमविवेककृतः पुरा । 
  जातिव्यक्तिविभागोऽयं यथा वस्तुनि कल्पितः ॥८॥
deha-dehi-vibhāgo 'yam  
 aviveka-kṛtaḥ purā  
 jāti-vyakti-vibhāgo 'yam  
 yathā vastuni kalpitaḥ
deha —of this body;  dehi —and the proprietor of the body;  vibhāgaḥ —the division;  ayam —this;  aviveka —from ignorance;  kṛtaḥ —made;  purā —from time immemorial;  jāti —of the class or caste;  vyakti —and the individual;  vibhāgaḥ —division;  ayam —this;  yathā —just as;  vastuni —in the original object;  kalpitaḥ —imagined.
TRANSLATION
Divisions of generalization and specification, such as nationality and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are not advanced in knowledge.
PURPORT
Actually there are two energies—material and spiritual. Both of them are ever-existing because they are emanations from the eternal truth, the Supreme Lord. Because the individual soul, the individual living entity, has desired to act in forgetfulness of his original identity since time im-