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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 1]
stantly changing from one aspect to the other. Therefore, one is advised to think of the Lord by thinking of any part of His gigantic body and by one's intelligence only. One can think of Him in any manifestation of the material world—the forest, the hill, the ocean, the man, the animal, the demigod, the bird, the beast or anything else. Each and every item of the material manifestation entails a part of the body of the gigantic form, and thus the flickering mind can be fixed in the Lord only and nothing else. This process of concentrating on the different bodily parts of the Lord will gradually diminish the demoniac challenge of godlessness and bring about gradual development of devotional service of the Lord. Everything being the part and parcel of the Complete Whole, the neophyte student will gradually realize the hymns of  Īśopaniṣad  which state that the Supreme Lord is everywhere, and thus he will learn the art of not committing any offense on the body of the Lord. This sense of God-mindedness will diminish one's pride of challenging the existence of God. Thus one can learn to show respect to everything, for all things are the parts and parcels of the supreme body.
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स सर्वधीवृत्त्यनुभूतसर्व 
    आत्मा यथा स्वप्नजनेक्षितैकः । 
    तं सत्यमानन्दनिधिं भजेत 
    नान्यत्र मज्जेद् यत आत्मपातः ॥३९॥
sa sarva-dhī-vṛtty-anubhūta-sarva 
    ātmā yathā svapnajanekṣitaikaḥ 
    tam satyam ānanda-nidhim bhajeta 
    nānyatra sajjed yata ātma-pātaḥ
saḥ —He, the Supreme Person;  sarva-dhī-vṛtti —the process of realization by all sorts of intelligence;  anubhūta —cognizant;  sarve —everyone;  ātmā —Supersoul;  yathā —as much as;  svapnajana —a person dreaming;  īkṣita —seen by;  ekaḥ —one and the same;  tam —unto Him;  satyam —Supreme Truth;  ānanda-nidhim —the ocean of bliss;  bhajeta —must one worship;  na —never;  anyatra —anything else;  sajjet —be attached;  yataḥ —whereby;  ātma-pātaḥ —degradation of oneself.