The Lord is the creator, maintainer and annihilator

Expressions researched:
"creator but the maintainer and annihilator" |"creator, maintainer and annihilator" |"maintainer and sustainer"

BG Chapters 7 - 12

Although the Lord is the maintainer and sustainer of the entire material manifestation, He does not touch this material manifestation.

BG 9.5, Purport:

We may think of doing something, but there are so many impediments, and sometimes it is not possible to do as we like. But when Kṛṣṇa wants to do something, simply by His willing, everything is performed so perfectly that one cannot imagine how it is being done. The Lord explains this fact: although He is the maintainer and sustainer of the entire material manifestation, He does not touch this material manifestation. Simply by His supreme will, everything is created, everything is sustained, everything is maintained, and everything is annihilated. There is no difference between His mind and Himself (as there is a difference between ourselves and our present material mind) because He is absolute spirit. Simultaneously the Lord is present in everything; yet the common man cannot understand how He is also present personally. He is different from this material manifestation, yet everything is resting on Him. This is explained here as yogam aiśvaram, the mystic power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.