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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 20]
śrī bhagavān uvāca 
  eṣa te 'kārṣīd bhaṅgam 
  haya-medha-śatasya ha 
  kṣamāpayata ātmānam 
  amuṣya kṣantum arhasi
śrī bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, spoke; eṣaḥ—this Lord Indra; te—your; akārṣīt—performed; bhaṅgam—disturbance; haya—horse; medha—sacrifice; śatasya—of the one-hundredth; ha—indeed; kṣamāpayataḥ—who is asking pardon; ātmānam—unto yourself; amuṣya—him; kṣantum—to forgive; arhasi—you ought.
TRANSLATION
Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said: My dear King Pṛthu, Indra, the King of heaven, has disturbed your execution of one hundred sacrifices. Now he has come with Me to be forgiven by you. Therefore excuse him.
PURPORT
In this verse the word  ātmānam  is very significant. It is a custom among  yogīs  and  jñānīs  to address one another (even an ordinary man) as one's self, for a transcendentalist never accepts a living being to be the body. Since the individual self is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self and the Superself are qualitatively nondifferent. As the next verse will explain, the body is only a superficial covering, and consequently an advanced transcendentalist will not make a distinction between one self and another.
TEXT 3
सुधियः साधत्रो लोके नरदेव नरोत्तमाः । 
  नामिद्रुक्षन्ति भूतेभ्यो यर्हि नात्मा कलेवरम् ॥ ३ ॥
sudhiyaḥ sādhavo loke 
  naradeva narottamāḥ 
  nābhidruhyanti bhūtebhyo 
  yarhi nātmā kalevaram
su-dhiyaḥ—the most intelligent persons; sādhavaḥ—who are inclined to perform welfare activities; loke—in this world; nara-deva—O King; nara-uttamāḥ—the best of human beings; na abhidruhyanti—never become mali-