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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 87: Verses 39-44
is why we, Srutis, finding our end (goal) in You, become fruitful in You, (describing You indirectly as we do) by negating everything other than You (including ourselves). If strivers (outwardly engaged in subduing their senses, mind etc.) do not tear the roots of passion planted in their heart, You remain difficult of access to such vile persons, though (ever) present in their heart (even) like a gem about the neck of a man, though forgotten by him. And for Yogis (passing by this name but) given to the gratification of their senses, 0 Lord, there is misery from both sides, viz., from Death (on the one hand) that has not turned his back (on him, here) and (after death, on the other) from You, whose truth remains unrealized (by him).
He who has come to know You (in reality) longer feels the impact o joys and sorrows that follow from good and evil acts (committed in past lives and) coming in relief by Your will (prone as You are to requite them according to their merit or demerit); nor does he recognize in that state the commandments (of the Vedas, which are no longer binding on him inasmuch as he has risen above them by virtue of his being no longer identified with his psycho-physical organism), intended as they are (only) for those identified with their body.
(This is but natural;) for, ushered (into the heart) through the ears (even) by men (who have not realized Your truth) day after day with the help of teachings handed down from age to age to all, 0 Lord with (sixfold) divine properties, You are (eventually) attained by them in the form of final beatitude. Even Brahma and others (the rulers of the heavenly regions) could not reach Your limit (farthest end), nor even You, because of Your being limitless-You, in whom, indeed, driven by time, float together, like particles of dust in the air, multitudes of cosmic eggs alongwith their (seven) sheaths ( viz., earth and so on, each of which is ten times as large as the one enclosed by it)! That The Lord (the divine Sage Narayana) continued : Having heard in this way the aforesaid exposition regarding the Self (in the shape of the eulogy uttered by the Vedas in their living form) and realized the (true) nature of the Self, and (thereby) achieved their end (as it were), Sanaka and others (the celebrated mind-born sons of Brahma, who were already accomplished of their purpose) now paid their homage to Sanandana (their preceptor for the time being). In this way was churned out by the exalted souls (Sanaka and others)-who are the earliest born (among the entire creation) and course through the air (unconcerned as they are with everything)-the essence of all the Vedas (their earlier portion, consisting of the Samhitas and their exegesis, the Brahmanas), the Puranas and the Upanisads (the later portion and the crown of the Vedas). Cherishing with faith, 0 Narada (son of Brahma), this exposition relating to the Self-(which is) capable of burning out (all) the desires of men-perambulate you at will the globe (as well as the other spheres typified by
it).
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