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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 24]
original person;  matsya-rūpī —who had assumed the form of a fish;  mahā-ambhodhau —in that water of inundation;  viharan —while moving;  tattvam abravīt —explained the Absolute Truth.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: When Satyavrata had thus prayed to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had assumed the form of a fish, the Lord, while moving in the water of inundation, explained to him the Absolute Truth.
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पुराणसंहितां दिव्यां सांख्ययोगक्रियावतीम् ।
सत्यव्रतस्य
राजर्षेरात्मगुह्यमशेषतः ॥५५॥
purāṇa-saṁhitāṁ divyāṁ sāṅkhya-yoga-kriyāvatīm satyavratasya rājarṣer ātma-guhyam aśeṣataḥ
purāṇa —the subject matter explained in the  Purāṇas , the old histories, especially the  Matsya Purāṇa ;  saṁhitāṁ —the Vedic instructions contained in  Brahma-saṁhitā  and other  saṁhitās ;  divyāṁ —all transcendental literatures;  sāṅkhya —the philosophical way of  sāṅkhya-yoga ;  yoga —the science of self-realization or  bhakti-yoga ;  kriyāvatīm —practically applied in life;  satyavratasya —of King Satyavrata;  rājarṣeḥ —the great king and saint;  ātma-guhyam —all the mysteries of self-realization;  aśeṣataḥ —including all branches.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead thus explained to King Satyavrata the spiritual science known as  sāṅkhya-yoga , the science by which one distinguishes between matter and spirit [in other words,  bhakti-yoga ], along with the instructions contained in the  Purāṇas  [the old histories] and the  saṁhitās . The Lord explained Himself in all these literatures.