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

Sanskrit:

देवा ऊचु:तम एतद्विभो वेत्थ संविग्ना यद्वयं भृशम् ।न ह्यव्यक्तं भगवत: कालेनास्पृष्टवर्त्मन: ॥ ३ ॥

ITRANS:

devā ūcuḥtama etad vibho vetthasaṁvignā yad vayaṁ bhṛśamna hy avyaktaṁ bhagavataḥkālenāspṛṣṭa-vartmanaḥ

Translation:

The fortunate demigods said: O great one, just see this darkness, which you know very well and which is causing us anxieties. Because the influence of time cannot touch you, there is nothing unmanifest before you.

Purport:

Brahmā is addressed herein as Vibhu and as the Personality of Godhead. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s incarnation of the mode of passion in the material world. He is nondifferent, in the representative sense, from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore the influence of time cannot affect him. The influence of time, which manifests as past, present and future, cannot touch higher personalities like Brahmā and other demigods. Sometimes demigods and great sages who have attained such perfection are called tri-kāla jña.