Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21


Sanskrit:

सृजस्यथो लुम्पसि पासि विश्वंरजस्तम:सत्त्वगुणै: स्वशक्तिभि: ।न बध्यसे तद्गुणकर्मभिर्वाज्ञानात्मनस्ते क्व‍ च बन्धहेतु: ॥ २१ ॥

ITRANS:

sṛjasy atho lumpasi pāsi viśvaṁrajas-tamaḥ-sattva-guṇaiḥ sva-śaktibhiḥna badhyase tad-guṇa-karmabhir vājñānātmanas te kva ca bandha-hetuḥ

Translation:

You create, destroy and also maintain this universe with Your personal energies — the modes of passion, ignorance and goodness — yet You are never entangled by these modes or the activities they generate. Since You are the original source of all knowledge, what could ever cause You to be bound by illusion?

Purport:

The phrase jñānātmanas te kva ca bandha-hetuḥ, “Since You are constituted of knowledge, what could be a cause of bondage for You?” definitely indicates the obvious, that the omniscient Supreme God is never in illusion. Therefore the impersonalistic theory that we are all God but have forgotten and are now in illusion is refuted here in the pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.