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Bhagavatham, Vishnu teertha Saarodhara quote from SB 2.4.12

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances (नमः) unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead (परस्मै पुरुषाय), who, for the cosmic manifestation (सद्-उद्भव-स्थान-निरोध-लीलया), accepts (गृहीत) the three modes of nature (शक्ति-त्रितयाय). He is the infinitely great complete whole (भूयसे) residing within the body of everyone (देहिनाम् अन्तर्-भवाय), and His ways are inconceivable and beyond perception (अनुपलक्ष्य-वर्त्मने). Purport: The schools of naked intellect do oft pursue the Divine as astronomers chase a star drowned in daylight; by measure, inference, and the proud geometry of mind. Yet the Lord remaineth anupalakṣya-vartmā , whose pathway leaveth no footprint upon the sands of logic. He concealeth Himself from the dissecting lamp, yet revealeth Himself unto affection. A single act of sevā, offered with melted intent, draweth more grace than libraries of sharpened disputation. For love is not merely emotion, but metaphysical magnetism; the soul aligning unto its causal ...