भक्तिर्दूरेऽस्तु तस्मिन्मे नापराधा भवन्ति चेत् ।
बहु मन्ये तदात्मानं नाहमागःसु रुद्रवत् ॥
bhaktir dūre’stu tasmin me nāparādhā bhavanti cet |
bahu manye tad ātmānaṁ nāham āgaḥsu rudravat ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.2.66)
“[Brahmādeva to Nārada:] Let alone bhakti, if I do not have any offenses to him [viz., Bhagavān], then I consider myself great [i.e., well]. I am not like Rudra in the case of offenses [i.e., Bhagavān does not forgive my offenses as he does Śiva’s].”