Bhagavatapurana 5.1.27

5.1.27

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tasminn u ha vā upaśama-śīlāḥ paramarṣayaḥ sakala-jīva-nikāyāvāsasya bhagavato vāsudevasya bhītānāṃ śaraṇa-bhūtasya śrīmac-caraṇāravindāvirata-smaraṇāvigalita-parama-bhakti-yogānu-bhāvena paribhāvitāntar-hṛdayādhigate bhagavati sarveṣāṃ bhūtānām ātma-bhūte pratyag-ātmany evātmanas tādātmyam aviśeṣeṇa samīyuḥ //

27. In that (life) they indeed in a wonderful degree secured tranquility and became the best of Rishis (wise men) by virtue of their intense and uninterrupted devotion developed by the constant remembrance of the glorious lotus-like feet of the Almighty Lord Vasudeva, who is the asylum of those that are in fear (of Samsara),

and who dwells in the body of every being; and having, in their heart purified by devotion, realised the Lord, the Atman of all beings as distinct from gross existences and having become free from all gross environments of body and other things they attained to the state of being one with Atman.