Bhagavatapurana 10.87.16

10.87.16

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16. Thus convinced, O Lord of the Three (Maya constituted of the three gunas) the learned plunge into the sea of nectar of Thy

stories, which washes off all the evil that besets the world, and thereby get free from all their sin and miseries. Does it need then dilating upon, O most perfect Lord, that those get free who by force of self-realisation cast off the evil tendencies (passions of the mind) and the effect of Time such as old age and contemplate Thyself of eternal and infinite blissfulness and wisdom?