Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 13


Sanskrit:

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणास्तद्‌वृत्तयश्च या: ।त्वय्यद्धा ब्रह्मणि परे कल्पिता योगमायया ॥ १३ ॥

ITRANS:

sattvam rajas tama itiguṇās tad-vṛttayaś ca yāḥtvayy addhā brahmaṇi parekalpitā yoga-māyayā

Translation:

The modes of material nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance — together with all their functions, become directly manifest within You, the Supreme Absolute Truth, by the arrangement of Your Yoga-māyā.

Purport:

Vasudeva’s description of how the Supreme Lord expands Himself into the products of the three material modes may possibly be misunderstood to imply that He is touched by the modes, or even that He is subject to destruction. To negate these misunderstandings, Vasudeva states here that the three modes and their products function by the arrangement of the Lord’s creative energy, Yoga-māyā, who is always completely under His control. Thus the Lord is never tainted in the least by any material contact.