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Devibhagavatapurana 1.4.44

Devībhāgavatapurāṇa 1.4.44

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1.4.44

tacchrutvā vacanaṃ tasya harirāha prajāpatim |
śṛṇuṣvaikamanā brahmaṃstvāṃ bravīmi manogatam ||

Thus hearing Brahmâ's words, Bhagavan Nârâyana spoke:-- “O Brahmân! I now speak out my mind to you; listen carefully. Though the Devas, Dânavas and men and all the Lokas know that You are the Creator, I am the Preserver and Rudra is the Destroyer, yet it is to be known that the saints, versed in the Vedas, have come to this conclusion by inference from the Vedas that the creation, preservation, and destruction are performed by the creative force, preservative force and destructive force. The Rajasik creative force residing in you, the Sattvik preservative force residing in me, and the Tamasik destructive force residing in Rudra are the all-in-all. When these Saktis become absent, you become inert and incapable to create, I to preserve and Rudra to destroy.
O intelligent Suvrata! We all are always under that Force directly or indirectly; hear instances that you can see and infer. At the time of Pralaya, I lie down on the bed of Ananta, subservient to that Force; again I wake up in the time of creation duly under the influence of Time.

Swami Vijnanananda 1921, The Sri Mad Devi Bhagavatam

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