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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
PURPORT
The Vedic hymns are generally meant for sacrifices to be performed by the fruitive workers who also want to satisfy the demigods to achieve their fruitive result. But the Lord is the personified sacrifices and personified Vedic hymns. Therefore one who is directly a devotee of the Lord is a person who has automatically both served the purposes of sacrifices and pleased the demigods. The devotees of the Lord may not perform any sacrifice or may not please the demigods as per Vedic injunctions, and still the devotee is on a higher level than the fruitive workers or the worshipers of different demigods.
TEXT 12
मत्स्यो युगान्तसमये मनुनोपलब्धः
क्षोणीमयो निखिलजीवनिकायकेतः।
विसंसितानुरुमये सलिले मुखान्मे
आदाय तत्र विजहार ह वेदमार्गान् ॥१२॥
matsyo yugānta-samaye manunopalabdhaḥ
kṣṇīmayo nikhila-jīva-nikāya-ketaḥ
visraṁsitān uru-bhaye salile mukhān me
ādāya tatra vijahāra ha veda-mārgān
matsyaḥ —incarnation of the fish;  yuga-anta —at the end of the millennium;  samaye —at the time of;  manunā —the would-be Vaivasvata Manu;  upalabdhaḥ —seen;  kṣṇīmayaḥ —up to the earthly planets;  nikhila —all;  jīva —living entities;  nikāya-ketaḥ —shelter for;  visraṁsitān —emanating from;  uru —great;  bhaye —out of fear;  salile —in the water;  mukhāt —from the mouth;  me —mine;  ādāya —having taken to;  tatra —there;  vijahāra —enjoyed;  ha —certainly;  veda-mārgān —all the  Vedas .
TRANSLATION
At the end of the millennium, the would-be Vaivasvata Manu, of the name Satyavrata, would see that the Lord in the fish incarnation is the shelter of all kinds of living entities, up to those in the earthly planet. Out