The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created us by His external potency and by whose mercy we expand the creation of the universe, is always situated before us as the Supersoul, but we cannot see His form. We are unable to see Him because all of us think that we are separate and independent gods.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
य एक ईशो निजमायया नः ससर्ज येनानुसृजाम विश्वम् । वयं न यस्यापि पुरः समीहतः पश्याम लिङ्गं पृथगीशमानिनः
ya eka īśo nijamāyayā naḥ sasarja yenānusṛjāma viśvam | vayaṃ na yasyāpi puraḥ samīhataḥ paśyāma liṅgaṃ pṛthagīśamāninaḥ
SB 6.9.25