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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 11: Chapter 9: Verses 14-24
Again, an ascetic should wander alone, have no fixed abode; and ever vigilant and living in a cave, unrecognized by obvious marks, he should be without any support and sparing of speech. For man with his perishable body to build a house is useless and fraught with great misery. The serpent happily inhabits the hole borrowed by others. The one almighty Lord, existing by Himself and the support of all, destroys this previously created universe through His Time-Energy at the end of a Kalpa. And then He remains One alone, quite undifferentiated. When by force of time, powerful in itself, all the energies in,the shape of the three Gunas get merged in the Unmanifest (when the creation ends), the most ancient Person, the Lord of Matter and Spirit, attainable by Brahma and other liberated beings, exists. He remains the absolute and unconditioned, and self-manifest Bliss, fit to be called Liberation (itself). O slayer of enemies, with His own unassisted power He agitates His May, consisting of the three Gunas and first creates Sutra or Mahattattva. They say that Sutra is the manifestation of the three Gunas, capable of creating the universe of multifarious forms, through which it runs like a thread and the individual soul gets into the world. Just as the spider projecting the web from its heart through mouth, sports with it and then swallows it, so does the Supreme Lord creates, preserves and destroys the universe. On whatever the embodied being deliberately centres its mind in its entirety, through love, hatred or fear, it attains that very form. 0 king, the larva confined by the wasp in a hole in the wall and contemplating on the wasp, without discarding its former body, transforms itself into the latter. 0 king, I thus learnt this wisdom from these preceptors. Now hear as I tell You what I have learnt from my own body.
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