Therefore the self is the dearest of all to every embodied being, and for the sake of that self alone exists this entire world of moving and unmoving beings.
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A curated selection of the most spiritually and philosophically luminous verses of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam) — one of the eighteen great Purāṇas and the foundational scripture of the bhakti (devotional) tradition — spanning all twelve cantos, from the opening invocation and Sūta's teaching on selfless devotion, through Kapila's yoga, Prahlāda's prayers, and Gajendra's surrender, to the Uddhava Gītā. Each verse is a fresh, faithful contemporary English rendering made directly from the Sanskrit and checked for fidelity by an independent adversarial review (no clause omitted, nothing added, no meaning reversed).
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- Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam) — Selected Verses
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- Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.14.54
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- BP.10.14.54