God is simultaneously identical with His creation and yet exists in His completeness

We often say that God created this material world, and this means that God existed before the world. Since the Lord was existing before this material manifestation, He is not subject to this creation. If He were subject to the laws of the material world, how could He have created it? That the Lord is simultaneously identical with His creation and yet exists in His completeness apart from it is stated in Bhagavad-gita.

– Srila Prabhupada, Elevation to Krishna Consciousness : 1 – Choosing Human and Animal lives