Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 3.3.5

The Supreme Lord is to be contemplated necessarily with a comprehension of all the excellences and absence of defects declared by all the Vedas. The Bhallaveya Sruti says : “ The glorious One who is Higher than the High is to be contemplated as declared by all the Vedas together with the Itihasas, Pancharatra, Puranas; and as possessing all the excellences revealed in the various parts (of them)/’ And this is said also in the Agneya- purana: “Just as all are bound to do, if possible, all the duties described and enjoined upon them by all the Vedas, so the glorious Lord is to be contemplated after having endeavoured to comprehend in Him at once all the excellences and the absence of all defects together; and this rule does not vary by time, place or person/’ And the comprehension or mentally grouping should be (only) of the attributes which are of the same kind (i.e., which become the supremacy of the Lord); but not of such as are conveyed by the text,' “ He wept, &c., ” (Tait S. I. 5. 1). The Brihat Tantra also says this: “ He is to be contemplated only as possessing excellences, and never as having any defects; further He is not to be contemplated as possessing even those qualities which are contrary to the idea of His being perfect.”