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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 24]
Godhead, Paramātmā, is situated in everyone's heart, and from Him come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. The Lord reveals Himself in proportion to one's surrender to Him.  Ye yathā mām prapadyante tāms tathaiva bhajāmy aham.  In responsive cooperation, the Lord reveals Himself in proportion to one's surrender. That which is revealed to one who fully surrenders is different from what is revealed to one who surrenders partially. Everyone naturally surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, either directly or indirectly. The conditioned soul surrenders to the laws of nature in material existence, but when one fully surrenders to the Lord, material nature does not act upon him. Such a fully surrendered soul is favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly.  Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etām taranti te.  One who has fully surrendered to the Lord has no fear of the modes of material nature, for everything is but an expansion of the Lord's glories ( sarvam khalv idam brahma ), and these glories are gradually revealed and realized. The Lord is the supreme purifier ( param brahma param dhāma pavitram paramam bhavān ). The more one is purified and the more he wants to know about the Supreme, the more the Lord reveals to him. Full knowledge of Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān is revealed to the pure devotees. The Lord says in  Bhagavadgītā  (10.11):
teṣām evānukampārtham aham ajñānajam tamaḥ nāśayāmy ātma-bhāvastho jñāna-dīpena bhāsvatā
“Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.”
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इत्थमादिश्य राजानं हरिन्तरधीयत । सोऽन्ववैक्षत तं कालं यं हृषीकेश आदिशत् ॥३९॥
ittham ādiśya rājānam harir antaradhīyata so 'nvavaikṣata tam kālam yam hṛṣīkeśa ādiśat