Those wise persons who are the authors of the scriptures say that Narayana, who is a Rishi, is the one object of respectful adoration in the universe, I say that there is no other being like Him.
तमेव शास्त्रकर्तारः प्रवदन्ति मनीषिणः। निष्ठां नारायणमृर्षि नान्योऽस्तीति वचो मम॥