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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 9]
TRANSLATION
O Lord, O supreme eternal, by expanding Your plenary portion You have created the subtle bodies of the living entities through the agency of Your external energy, which is agitated by time. Thus the mind entraps the living entity in unlimited varieties of desires to be fulfilled by the Vedic directions of karma-kāṇḍa [fruitive activity] and the sixteen elements. Who can get free from this entanglement unless he takes shelter at Your lotus feet?
PURPORT
If the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present in everything, where is the question of being liberated from material encagement to spiritual, blissful life? Indeed, it is a fact that Krṣṇa is the source of everything, as we understand from Krṣṇa Himself in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ ). All the activities in both the spiritual and material world are certainly conducted by the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the agency of either the material or spiritual nature. As further confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.10),  mayādhyakṣṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram : without the direction of the Supreme Lord, material nature cannot do anything; it cannot act independently. Therefore, in the beginning the living entity wanted to enjoy the material energy, and to give the living entity all facility, Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, created this material world and gave the living entity the facility to concoct different ideas and plans through the mind. These facilities offered by the Lord to the living entity constitute the sixteen kinds of perverted support in terms of the knowledge-gathering senses, the working senses, the mind and the five material elements. The wheel of repeated birth and death is created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but to direct the bewildered living entity in progress toward liberation according to varied stages of advancement, different directions are given in the  Vedas  ( chandomayam ). If one wants to be elevated to the higher planetary systems, he may follow the Vedic directions. As the Lord states in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.25):
yānti deva-vratā devān pitṛn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ