Bhagavatapurana 8.24.46

8.24.46

/0 śrīrājovāca
anādyavidyopahatātmasaṃvidas tanmūlasaṃsārapariśramāturāḥ /
yadṛcchayopasṛtā yamāpnuyur vimuktido naḥ paramo gururbhavān //

46. The king said:—"Thou art our highest Preceptor and Father who can confer Moksha on us, and to whom beings, having lost their knowledge of self through interruption by eternal Avidya (ignorance) and becoming subject to afflictions and anxieties of the Saṃsara instituted by the same Avidya, may here attain, as Thou hast through Thy own grace presented Thy self to them.