सृष्ट्यादिकं हरिर्नैव प्रयोजनमपेक्ष्य तु ।
कुरुते केवलानन्दाद्यथा मत्तस्य नर्तनम् ॥
पूर्णानन्दस्य तस्येह प्रयोजनमतिः कुतः ।
मुक्ता अप्याप्त-कामाः स्युः किमुतास्याखिलात्मनः ॥
sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ harir naiva prayojanam apekṣya tu |
kurute kevalānandād yathā mattasya nartanam ||
pūrṇānandasya tasyeha prayojana-matiḥ kutaḥ |
muktā apy āpta-kāmāḥ syuḥ kim utāsyākhilātmanaḥ ||
(Nārāyaṇa-saṁhitā; cited in Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47; Paramātma Sandarbha: 93; Govinda-bhāṣya on Vedānta-sūtra: 2.1.33)
“Hari does not require any motive for emanation and so forth [of the material universes]. He acts purely out of bliss, like the dancing of an intoxicated person. Since he is full of bliss, how can he have any thought of a motive? Even liberated beings are of satisfied desire, so how much more so must be the Ātmā of all?”