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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.24.46

ఆత్మానం సర్వభూతేషు భగవన్తమవస్థితమ్ । అపశ్యత్సర్వభూతాని భగవత్యపి చాత్మని ॥ ౪౬ ॥
ātmānaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu
[aatmaanam sarva-bhooteshu]
bhagavantam avasthitam
[bhagavantam avasthitam]
apaśyat sarva-bhūtāni
[apashyat sarva-bhootaani]
bhagavaty api cātmani
[bhagavaty api chaatmani]
ātmānam — the Supersoul sarva-bhūteṣu — in all living beings bhagavantam — the Supreme Personality of Godhead avasthitam — situated apaśyat — he saw sarva-bhūtāni — all living beings bhagavati — in the Supreme Personality of Godhead api — moreover ca — and ātmani — on the Supersoul.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
ātmānaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu
ātmānam
the Supersoul
sarva-bhūteṣu
in all living beings
bhagavantam
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
bhagavantam avasthitam
avasthitam
situated
apaśyat sarva-bhūtāni
apaśyat
he saw
sarva-bhūtāni
all living beings
bhagavati
in the Supreme Personality of Godhead
bhagavaty api cātmani
api
moreover
ca
and
ātmani
on the Supersoul.
He began to see that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is seated in everyone’s heart, and that everyone is existing on Him, because He is the Supersoul of everyone.

That everyone is existing on the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not mean that everyone is also Godhead. This is also explained in Bhagavad-gītā: everything is resting on Him, the Supreme Lord, but that does not mean that the Supreme Lord is also everywhere. This mysterious position has to be understood by highly advanced devotees. There are three kinds of devotees — the neophyte devotee, the intermediate devotee and the advanced devotee. The neophyte devotee does not understand the techniques of devotional science, but simply offers devotional service to the Deity in the temple. The intermediate devotee understands who God is, who is a devotee, who is a nondevotee and who is innocent, and he deals with such persons differently. But a person who sees that the Lord is sitting as Paramātmā in everyone’s heart and that everything is depending or existing on the transcendental energy of the Supreme Lord is in the highest devotional position.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Kardama saw the antaryāmī situated within all living beings, and saw all living beings situated within Mahāviṣṇu. He saw the Lord directly. This state is described. He saw the antaryāmī of all, Kṣīrodakaśāyī, the third puruṣāvatāra (ātmānam) situated in all beings. This was Bhagavān, the four armed lord, Śukla, the deity of his worship. He saw all beings, situated in universes emerging from Mahāviṣṇu’s hair pores, within the antaryāmī of prakṛti, Kāraṇodakaśāyī, the first puruṣa, by eyes produced through yoga. Kardama is described to be more advanced than the yogīs who get gradual liberation described in the Second Canto. The yogī, giving up his gross body, desiring to see everything within the universe, goes and sees everything within the universe. Kardama, however, without desire to see anything, while situated in this world, saw all beings in the hair holes of the Lord outside of the universe, in the Kāraṇa Ocean. The form he saw was the four armed Viṣṇu, Śukla, the object of his worship. Yaśodā saw all beings within Kṛṣṇa. It should be understood however that seeing the powerful form of Viṣṇu was suitable to Kardama who worshipped that powerful form.
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