Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12, Chapter 02, Text 17

SB 12.2.17

caracara-guror visnor
 isvarasyakhilatmanah
dharma-tranaya sadhunam
 janma karmapanuttaye
 
Translation: 
 
Lord Visnu — the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the spiritual master of all moving and nonmoving living beings, and the Supreme Soul of all — takes birth to protect the principles of religion and to relieve His saintly devotees from the reactions of material work.

 

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12, Chapter 02, Text 12-16
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