Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 22

Sanskrit:

अविद्यमानोऽप्यवभासते योवैकारिको राजससर्ग एष: ।ब्रह्म स्वयंज्योतिरतो विभातिब्रह्मेन्द्रियार्थात्मविकारचित्रम् ॥ २२ ॥

ITRANS:

avidyamāno ’py avabhāsate yovaikāriko rājasa-sarga eṣaḥbrahma svayaṁ jyotir ato vibhātibrahmendriyārthātma-vikāra-citram

Translation:

Although thus not existing in reality, this manifestation of transformations created from the mode of passion appears real because the self-manifested, self-luminous Absolute Truth exhibits Himself in the form of the material variety of the senses, the sense objects, the mind and the elements of physical nature.

Purport:

The total material nature, pradhāna, is originally undifferentiated and inert, but later it undergoes transformation when the Supreme Lord, through His time agent, glances upon it and activates the mode of passion. Material transformation thus takes place and is exhibited as the Lord’s inferior energy. In contrast, the Supreme Lord’s personal abode possesses eternal variety, which is the self-luminous, internal opulence of the Absolute Truth and is not subject to material creation, transformation or annihilation. The material world is in this way simultaneously one with and different from the Absolute Truth.