Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 30

Sanskrit:

अत: परं प्रवक्ष्यामि वंशान्मन्वन्तराणि च ।एवं रज:प्लुत: स्रष्टा कल्पादिष्वात्मभूर्हरि: ।सृजत्यमोघसङ्कल्प आत्मैवात्मानमात्मना ॥ ३० ॥

ITRANS:

ataḥ paraṁ pravakṣyāmivaṁśān manvantarāṇi caevaṁ rajaḥ-plutaḥ sraṣṭākalpādiṣv ātmabhūr hariḥsṛjaty amogha-saṅkalpaātmaivātmānam ātmanā

Translation:

Now I shall describe the descendants of the Manus. The creator, Brahmā, as the incarnation of the passion mode of the Personality of Godhead, creates the universal affairs with unfailing desires in every millennium by the force of the Lord’s energy.

Purport:

The cosmic manifestation is an expansion of one of the many energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; the creator and the created are both emanations of the same Supreme Truth, as stated in the beginning of the Bhāgavatam: janmādy asya yataḥ.