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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.12.5

ఆద్యన్తావస్య యన్మధ్యమిదమన్యదహం బహి: యతోఽవ్యయస్య నైతాని తత్ సత్యం బ్రహ్మ చిద్‌భవాన్ ॥ ౫ ॥
ādy-antāv asya yan madhyam
[aady-antaav asya yan madhyam]
idam anyad ahaṁ bahiḥ
[idam anyad aham bahih]
yato ’vyayasya naitāni
[yato ’vyayasya naitaani]
tat satyaṁ brahma cid bhavān
[tat satyam brahma chid bhavaan]
ādi — the beginning antau — and the end asya — of this manifested cosmos or of anything material or visible yat — that which madhyam — between the beginning and the end, the sustenance idam — this cosmic manifestation anyat — anything other than You aham — the wrong mental conception bahiḥ — outside of You yataḥ — because of avyayasya — the inexhaustible na — not etāni — all these differences tat — that satyam — the Absolute Truth brahma — the Supreme cit — spiritual bhavān — Your Lordship.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
ādy-antāv asya yan madhyam
ādi
the beginning
antau
and the end
asya
of this manifested cosmos or of anything material or visible
yat
that which
madhyam
between the beginning and the end, the sustenance
idam anyad ahaṁ bahiḥ
idam
this cosmic manifestation
anyat
anything other than You
aham
the wrong mental conception
bahiḥ
outside of You
yato ’vyayasya naitāni
yataḥ
because of
tat satyaṁ brahma cid bhavān
avyayasya
the inexhaustible
na
not
etāni
all these differences
tat
that
satyam
the Absolute Truth
brahma
the Supreme
cit
spiritual
bhavān
Your Lordship.
The manifest, the unmanifest, false ego and the beginning, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation all come from You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because You are the Absolute Truth, the supreme absolute spirit soul, the Supreme Brahman, such changes as birth, death and sustenance do not exist in You.

According to the Vedic mantras, yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante: everything is an emanation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gītā (7.4) :

bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā

“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego — all together these eight comprise My separated material energies.” In other words, the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation also consist of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This does not mean, however, that because the ingredients come from Him, He is no longer complete. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate: “Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.” Thus the Lord is called avyaya, inexhaustible. Unless we accept the Absolute Truth as acintya-bhedābheda, simultaneously one and different, we cannot have a clear conception of the Absolute Truth. The Lord is the root of everything. Aham ādir hi devānām: He is the original cause of all the devas, or demigods. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ: everything emanates from Him. In all cases — nominative, objective, positive, negative and so on — whatever we may conceive of in this entire cosmic manifestation is in fact the Supreme Lord. For Him there are no such distinctions as “this is mine, and this belongs to someone else,” because He is everything. He is therefore called avyaya — changeless and inexhaustible. Because the Supreme Lord is avyaya, He is the Absolute Truth, the fully spiritual Supreme Brahman.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
That from which visible things like birth, death and life within this universe arises and that from which invisible things like the conception of I and mine arise, is you alone, the absolute Brahman. You, the indestructible Brahman, do not have beginning, middle and end. “You say that I am the material of the universe, but the universe has a beginning, is temporary and unconscious. Are you saying I am temporary and unconscious?” No. From whom arise birth and death in this world, and living (madhyam) as well, anything you see in this world (asya), and other things you cannot see—I (aham) and possessiveness (bahiḥ)—that Brahman with spiritual form is you. You, the indestructible Brahman, do not have beginning, middle and end (etāni).
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