मानसादिपूजायां भूतपूर्वतत्परिकरलीलासंवलितत्वमपि न कल्पनामयं, किन्तु यथार्थमेव । यतस्तस्य प्राकट्यसमये लीलास्तत्परिकराश्च ये प्रादुर्बभूवुः, ते तादृशाश्चाप्रकटमपि नित्यं तदीये धाम्नि सङ्ख्यातीता एव वर्तन्ते ।
mānasādi-pūjāyāṁ bhūta-pūrva-tat-parikara-līlā-saṁvalitatvam api na kalpanā-mayaṁ, kintu yathārtham eva | yatas tasya prākaṭya-samaye līlās tat-parikarāś ca ye prādurbabhūvuḥ, te tādṛśāś cāprakaṭam api nityaṁ tadīye dhāmni saṅkhyātītā eva vartante |
(Bhakti Sandarbha: 286)
“In worship [performed] in the mind and elsewhere, although the content of the meditation is possessed of līlās and associates of his [i.e., Bhagavān’s] that were existent in the past, it is not [merely] imaginary but rather real since his associates and the līlās that appeared at the time of his manifestation (prākaṭya) [which one meditates upon] exist eternally beyond enumeration even unmanifestly as such [i.e., in an equally real form] in his abode [as well].”