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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.7.53

యథా పుమాన్న స్వాఙ్గేషు శిర:పాణ్యాదిషు క్‍వచిత్ । పారక్యబుద్ధిం కురుతే ఏవం భూతేషు మత్పర: ॥ ౫౩ ॥
yathā pumān na svāṅgeṣu
[yathaa pumaan na svaangeshu]
śiraḥ-pāṇy-ādiṣu kvacit
[shirah-paany-aadishu kvachit]
pārakya-buddhiṁ kurute
[paarakya-buddhim kurute]
evaṁ bhūteṣu mat-paraḥ
[evam bhooteshu mat-parah]
yathā — as pumān — a person na — not sva-aṅgeṣu — in his own body śiraḥ-pāṇi-ādiṣu — between the head and the hands and other parts of the body kvacit — sometimes pārakya-buddhim — differentiation kurute — make evam — thus bhūteṣu — among living entities mat-paraḥ — My devotee.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yathā pumān na svāṅgeṣu
yathā
as
pumān
a person
na
not
sva-aṅgeṣu
in his own body
śiraḥ-pāṇy-ādiṣu kvacit
śiraḥ-pāṇi-ādiṣu
between the head and the hands and other parts of the body
kvacit
sometimes
pārakya-buddhiṁ kurute
pārakya-buddhim
differentiation
kurute
make
evaṁ bhūteṣu mat-paraḥ
evam
thus
bhūteṣu
among living entities
mat-paraḥ
My devotee.
A person with average intelligence does not think the head and other parts of the body to be separate. Similarly, My devotee does not differentiate Viṣṇu, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, from any thing or any living entity.

Whenever there is disease in any part of the body, the whole body takes care of the ailing part. Similarly, a devotee’s oneness is manifested in His compassion for all conditioned souls. Bhagavad-gītā (5.18) says, paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ: those who are learned see everyone’s conditional life equally. Devotees are compassionate to every conditioned soul, and therefore they are known as apārakya-buddhi. Because devotees are learned and know that every living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, they preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to everyone so that everyone may be happy. If a particular part of the body is diseased, the whole attention of the body goes to that part. Similarly, devotees care for any person who is forgetful of Kṛṣṇa and therefore in material consciousness. The equal vision of the devotee is that he works to get all living entities back home, back to Godhead.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
My devotee does not see difference between himself and all living beings, just as a person does not differentiate between himself and his various limbs such as head and hand. The devotee sees himself as non-different from all beings. The devotee’s seeing non-difference is taking others’ happiness and distress as his own.
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