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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 3]
You have prayed for the benediction of a son like Me for King Nābhi, but this is very difficult to obtain. Since I am the Supreme Person without a second and since no one is equal to Me, another personality like Me is not possible to find. In any case, because you are all qualified brāhmaṇas, your vibrations should not prove untrue. I consider the brāhmaṇas who are well qualified with brahminical qualities to be as good as My own mouth.
PURPORT
The word  avitatha-gīrbhiḥ  means “they whose spoken vibrations cannot be nullified.” The  brāhmaṇas  ( dvija , the twiceborn), are given a chance by the śāstric regulations to become almost as powerful as the Supreme Lord. Whatever a  brāhmaṇa  speaks cannot be nullified or changed in any circumstance. According to the Vedic injunctions, a  brāhmaṇa  is the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore in all rituals a  brāhmaṇa  is offered food ( brāhmaṇa-bhojaṇa ) because when a  brāhmaṇa  eats, it is considered that the Supreme Lord Himself eats. Similarly, whatever a  brāhmaṇa  speaks cannot be changed. It must act. The learned sages who were priests at Mahārāja Nābhi’s sacrifice were not only  brāhmaṇas  but were so qualified that they were like  devas , demigods, or God Himself. If this were not the case, how could they invite Lord Viṣṇu to come to the sacrificial arena? God is one, and God does not belong to this or that religion. In Kali-yuga, different religious sects consider their God to be different from the God of others, but that is not possible. God is one, and He is appreciated according to different angles of vision. In this verse the word  kaivalyāt  means that God has no competitor. There is only one God. In the  Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad  (6.8) it is said,  na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate : “No one is found to be equal to Him or greater than Him.” That is the definition of God.
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तत अग्नीत्रीयेऽशकलयावतरिष्याम्यात्मतुल्यमनुपलभमानः ॥१८॥
tata āgnīdhrīye 'mśa-kalayāvatariṣyāmy ātma-tulyam anupalabhamānaḥ.