Bhagavatapurana 11.31.12.p2

11.31.12.p2

tathāpy aśeṣa-sthiti-sambhavāpyayeṣv $ ananya-hetur yad aśeṣa-śakti-dhṛk &

13. Though omnipotent and the absolute cause of the subsistance, origin and destruction of everything, still the Lord did not like to leave behind His personality, in order to show (to others) how the mortal body is worthless and the divine state is eternal and incomparably superior).