Markandeyapurana 46.9

46.9

prakṛtiṃ puruṣañcaiva prāviśyāśu jagatpatiḥ /
kṣobhayāmāsa yogena pareṇa parameśvaraḥ //

The Supreme God, quickly enters into Nature and the Soul, as the lord of the universe, and agitates them with his intense supernatural power. Just as love, or a breeze of Spring, entering into young women tends to produce agitation, so does he, who is the embodiment of supernatural power. When Pradhāna is agitated, the god Brahmā is born and is contained within the cavity of the egg, as I have already told thee. At first he is the agitator; as the husband of Nature, he is the thing to be agitated; and he exists with contraction and expansion even in the state of Pradhāna. He is born, though he is the birth-place of the universe; though devoid of qualities, he possesses the quality of passion; when he assumes the character of Brahmā, he engages in creation.