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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 16]
TEXT 51
अहं वै सर्वभूतानि भूतात्मा भूतभावनः । शब्दब्रह्म परं ब्रह्म ममोमे शाश्वती तनू ॥५१॥
aham vai sarva-bhūtāni bhūtāmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ śabda-brahma param brahma mamobhe śāśvatī tanū
aham—I; vai—indeed; sarva-bhūtāni—expanded in different forms of living entities; bhūta-ātmā—the Supersoul of all living entities (the supreme director and enjoyer of them); bhūta-bhāvanaḥ—the cause for the manifestation of all living entities; śabda-brahma—the transcendental sound vibration (the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra); param brahma—the Supreme Absolute Truth; mama—My; ubhe—both (namely, the form of sound and the form of spiritual identity); śāśvatī—eternal; tanū—two bodies.
TRANSLATION
All living entities, moving and nonmoving, are My expansions and are separate from Me. I am the Supersoul of all living beings, who exist because I manifest them. I am the form of the transcendental vibrations like omikāra and Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Rāma, and I am the Supreme Absolute Truth. These two forms of Mine—namely, the transcendental sound and the eternally blissful spiritual form of the Deity, are My eternal forms; they are not material.
PURPORT
The science of devotional service has been instructed by Nārada and Aṅgirā to Citraketu. Now, because of Citraketu's devotional service, he has seen the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By performing devotional service, one advances step by step, and when one is on the platform of love of Godhead ( premā pumartho mahān ) he sees the Supreme Lord at every moment. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā , when one engages in devotional service twenty-four hours a day ( teṣām satata-yuktānām bhajatām prīti-pūrvakam ) in accordance with the instructions of the spiritual