Bhagavatapurana 5.7.7

5.7.7

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evaṃ karma-viśuddhyā viśuddha-sattvasyāntar-hṛdayākāśa-śarīre brahmaṇi bhagavati vāsudeve mahā-puruṣa-rūpopalakṣaṇe śrīvatsa-kaustubha-vana-mālāri-dara-gadādibhir upalakṣite nija-puruṣa-hṛl-likhitenātmani puruṣa-rūpeṇa virocamāna uccaistarāṃ bhaktir anudinam edhamāna-rayājāyata //

5&6. And in full faith he worshipped the Lord who is Yagna and Kratu, by means of various sacrifices, great and small and in their important as well as modified forms, such as Agnihotra, Darsapoornamasa, Chaturmasya, Pasusoma and others; various other sacrifices were conducted at due hours, at morning, midday and evening according to the rule of Chaturhotra. All the accessory rites being properly performed, the fruit of the sacrificial acts, which was yet to arise out of it and called Dharma was considered by him as resting in Brahman, the Lord of sacrifices, the Supreme Deity, and the glorious Vasudeva who is really the doer, because He rules and regulates the objects (Deities) of all mantras descriptive of all the gods; having cleansed his mind of all impurity by his own skill the sacrificer Bharata contemplated, as resting on the various members of the Lord's personality,— the gods who were invited to accept the offerings (from the hands) of the priests called Adhvaryus in his sacrifices. 7. From day to day there grew, in Bharata's heart purified by these faultless sacrificial performances, intense devotion towards Brahman, who revealed Himself in the space enclosed by his heart, who is the glorious Vasudeva, who exhibits a personal form, like that of great men, distinguished by Srivatsa, Kaustubha, Vanamala, Chakra, Sankha, Gada and other marks, and who shone in His own self in that personal form which is ever present like a picture in the heart of His devotees (like Narada).