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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 25]
sense gratification, the desire to become one with the Supreme Lord, are all completely rejected in the  Bhāgavatam . The  Bhāgavatam  is especially meant for the pure devotees who always engage in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in the activities of the Lord, and always glorify these transcendental activities. Pure devotees worship the transcendental activities of the Lord in Vṛndāvana, Dvārakā and Mathurā as they are narrated in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and other  Purāṇas . The Māyāvādī philosophers completely reject them as stories, but actually they are great and worshipable subject matter and thus are relishable only for devotees. That is the difference between a Māyāvādī and a pure devotee.
TEXT 35
पश्यन्ति ते मे रुचिराण्यम्ब सन्तः
प्रसन्नवक्त्रारुणलोचनानि ।
रूपाणि दिव्यानि वरप्रदानि
साकं वाचं स्पृहणीयां वदन्ति ॥३५॥
paśyanti te me rucirāṇy amba santaḥ
prasanna-vaktrāruṇa-locanāni
rūpāṇi divyāni vara-pradāni
sākam vācam spṛhaṇīyām vadanti
paśyanti —see;  te —they;  me —My;  rucirāṇi —beautiful;  amba —O mother;  santaḥ —devotees;  prasanna —smiling;  vaktra —face;  aruṇa —like the morning sun;  locanāni —eyes;  rūpāṇi —forms;  divyāni —transcendental;  vara-pradāni —benevolent;  sākam —with Me;  vācam —words;  spṛhaṇīyām —favorable;  vadanti —they speak.
TRANSLATION
O My mother, My devotees always see the smiling face of My form, with eyes like the rising morning sun. They like to see My various transcendental forms, which are all benevolent, and they also talk favorably with Me.
PURPORT
Māyāvādīs and atheists accept the forms of the Deities in the temple of the Lord as idols, but the devotees do not worship idols. They directly worship the Personality of Godhead in His  arcā  incarnation.  Arcā  refers to the form which we can worship in our present condition. Actually in our