Bhagavatapurana 3.33.2

3.33.2

/0 devahūtir uvāca
athāpy ajo 'ntaḥ-salile śayānaṃ bhūtendriyārthātma-mayaṃ vapus te /
guṇa-pravāhaṃ sad-aśeṣa-bījaṃ dadhyau svayaṃ yaj-jaṭharābja-jātaḥ //

2. Devahuti said:—Indeed, even Aja (Brahma) himself born of the lotus of Thy stomach contemplated only Thy

Verse 2. भूत...मयम् V. takes this to mean all the intelligent and the unintelligent things abiding in the bowels of the Lord. गुणप्रवाहम् V. The Lord who is the cause of the activity associated wit the three gunas of Prakriti abiding in Him. अप्ययान्ते D. Towards the end of Pralaya आत्म V. The jiva (as a class) D. The mind. D. notes that Lakshmi and other presiding deities are to be taken here, so that the Lord may be realised as superior to them all. गुणप्रवाहं D. (The Lord) who makes the gunas body which being manifest lay on the waters, composed of the Bhutas, (five elements), the Indriyas (or the senses and organs) their objects, and the mind in which the stream of the gunas has its origin, and which is the cause or source of all (matter in the form of cause and effect) ;