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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 22]
vyaktam ātmavatām ātmā bhagavān ātma-bhāvanaḥ svānām anugrahāyemām siddha-rūpī caraty ajaḥ
vyaktam—clear; ātmavatām—of the transcendentalists; ātmā—the goal of life; bhagavān—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ātma-bhāvanaḥ—always wishing to elevate the living entities; svānām—whose own devotees; anugrahāya—just to show mercy; imām—this way; siddha-rūpī—perfectly self-realized; carati—travels; ajaḥ—Nārāyaṇa.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always anxious to elevate the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, and for their special benefit, the Lord travels all over the world in the form of self-realized persons like you.
PURPORT
There are different kinds of transcendentalists, namely the  jñānīs , or impersonalists, the mystic  yogīs , and, of course, all the devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Kumāras, however, were both  yogīs  and  jñānīs  and finally  bhaktas  later on. In the beginning they were impersonalists, but later they developed devotional activities; therefore they are the best of the transcendentalists. The devotees are representatives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to elevate the conditioned souls to their original consciousness, they travel all over the universes to enlighten the conditioned souls about Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The best devotees are  ātmavat , or those who have fully realized the Supreme Soul. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, as Paramātmā, is sitting within everyone's heart, trying to elevate everyone to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore He is called  ātma-bhāvana . The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always trying to give intelligence to the individual soul to understand about Himself. He is always with the individual as a friend sitting by the side of a friend, and He gives facilities to all living entities according to their desires.
The word  ātmavatām  is significant in this verse. There are three different kinds of devotees, namely  kaṇiṣṭha-adhikārī ,  madhyama-adhikārī  and  ut-tama-adhikārī : the neophyte, the preacher, and the  mahā-bhāgavata  or the highly advanced devotees. The highly advanced devotee is one who knows the conclusion of the  Vedas  in full knowledge; thus he becomes a devotee.