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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 13]
spiritual power;  dadarśa —he saw;  lokān —to all the different planets;  vicaran —traveling;  loka-tattva —the nature of the living beings (especially those who are trying to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness);  vivitsayā —to try to understand;  vṛtaḥ —surrounded;  amātyaiḥ —by royal associates;  katipayaiḥ —a few;  prahrādaḥ —Mahārāja Prahlāda;  bhagavat-priyaḥ —who is always very, very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Prahlāda Mahārāja, the most dear servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, once went out touring the universe with some of his confidential associates just to study the nature of saintly persons. Thus he arrived at the bank of the Kāverī, where there was a mountain known as Sahya. There he found a great saintly person who was lying on the ground, covered with dirt and dust, but who was deeply spiritually advanced.
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कर्मणाकृतिमिर्वाचा लिङ्गैर्वर्णाश्रमादिभिः। न विदन्ति जना यं वै सोऽसाविति न वेति च ॥१४॥
karmaṇākṛtibhir vācā liṅgair varṇāśramādibhiḥ na vidanti janā yaṁ vai so 'sāv iti na veti ca
karmaṇā —by activities;  ākṛtibhiḥ —by bodily features;  vācā —by words;  liṅgaiḥ —by symptoms;  varṇa-āśrama —pertaining to the particular material and spiritual divisions of  varṇa  and  āśrama ;  ādibhiḥ —and by other symptoms;  na vidanti —could not understand;  janāḥ —people in general;  yam —whom;  vai —indeed;  saḥ —whether that person;  asau —was the same person;  iti —thus;  na —not;  vā —or;  iti —thus;  ca —also.
TRANSLATION
Neither by that saintly person's activities, by his bodily features, by his words nor by the symptoms of his varṇāśrama status could