न तस्य कार्यं करणं च विद्यते
न तत्समश्चाभ्यधिकश्च दृश्यते ।
परास्य शक्तिर्विविधैव श्रूयते
स्वाभाविकी ज्ञानबलक्रिया च ॥
na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate
na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate |
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate
svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca ||
(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad: 6.8; cited in Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.2.179; Bhagavat Sandarbha: 16)
“He [i.e., the Supreme Īśvara] has no effect [i.e., material body] or means [i.e., material senses], and nothing equal to him or superior is visible [i.e., existent]. His parā [i.e., superior] śakti is heard to be verily variegated, inherent (svābhāvikī) [in him], and constituted of [divisions known as] consciousness, strength, and action.”