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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 60: Verses 36-40
The ways (even) of sages fond of the honey of Your lotus-feet are obscure and hence surely incomprehensible by beasts among men. For, when the doings of (even) those who follow You are as though supernatural, those of the Almighty Lord in You must be much more so. Certainly You-to whom (even) Brahma and others, who accept offerings (from others) bear offerings-are Akincana (not in the sense that You own nothing but) because there is nothing other than You. Those blinded by wealth and (engaged in) gratifying their senses do not know You, who steal away the hours of their life. You are the most beloved of those Brahma and others (who enjoy the respect of others), and vice versa. Indeed You are the embodiment of every (recognized) object of human pursuit, a personification of absolute joy, seeking which the wise give up everything. Their contact with You is most deserved, but not so of the man and woman who are attached one to the other and therefore subject to pleasure and pain. You have been elected by me (as my husband), knowing that Your glory has been sung by sages who have renounced the rod, and that You are the Soul of the universe and are ready to bestow Your very self (on Your devotees), and rejecting (even) Brahma (the lotus-born) and the rulers of heaven (indra and others), whose fortune and blessings are dashed to the ground by the force of Time as propelled by a mere play of Your eyebrows, others (Sisupala and so on) being of no account. Your plea that You resorted to the sea out of fear (of the kings) has no meaning, 0 elder Brother of Gada; for, by the mere twang of the Sarnga bow you put them to flight and carried away myself, Your share, 0 Lord, (even) as a lion drives away other animals and appropriates its prey.
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