Bhagavatapurana 10.84.11

11. Indeed those are not holy waters that are in the form of sheets of water, the gods are not those that are made of earth and stone, for they purify the man only through a long process of time, but the righteous purify him at the very sight.

12. Agni, Surya, Chandra, Stars and planets, the Earth, Water, the Heavens, Vayu, Speech, Mind—these being worshipped, cannot remove sin, since they promote the sense of difference (the sin of that man who indulges in the notion of difference): whereas men of wisdom, worshipped even for a short while, remove it completely.