Ādi-līlā, Chapter 5
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PURPORT
The symptoms of the  puruṣa  are described in  Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta . While describing the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the author has quoted from the  Viṣṇu Purāṇa  (6.8.59), where it is said: “Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Puruṣottama, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is always free from the contamination of the six material dualities; whose plenary expansion, Mahā-Viṣṇu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation; who expands Himself in various transcendental forms, all of which are one and the same; who is the master of all living entities; who is always free and liberated from the contamination of material energy; and who, when He appears in this material world, seems one of us, although He has an eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form.” In summarizing this statement, Rūpa Gosvāmī has concluded that the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with the material energy is called the  puruṣa .
TEXT 77
বিষ্ণোত্ত ত্রীণি রূপাণি পুরুষাখ্যাত্মথো বিচ্: । 
  একত্ত মহত: স্রষ্ট্ ষিতীয়ং স্বওদংস্থিতম্ । 
  তৃতীয়ং সর্বভূতস্থং তানি ভ্রাতা বিমুচ্যতে । ৭৭ ।
viṣṇos tu trīṇi rūpāṇi 
  puruṣākhyāny atho viduḥ 
  ekam tu mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ 
  dvitīyam tv aṇḍa-saṁsthitam 
  tṛtīyam sarva-bhūta-stham 
  tāni jñātvā vimucyate
SYNONYMS
viṣṇoḥ —of Lord Viṣṇu;  tu —certainly;  trīṇi —three;  rūpāṇi —forms;  puruṣa-ākhyāni —celebrated as the  puruṣa ;  atho —how;  viduḥ —they know;  ekam —one of them;  tu —but;  mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ —the creator of the total material energy;  dvitīyam —the second;  tu —but;  aṇḍa-saṁsthitam —situated within the universe;  tṛtīyam —the third;  sarva-bhūta-stham —within the hearts of all living entities;  tāni —these three;  jñātvā —knowing;  vimucyate —one becomes liberated.
TRANSLATION
“Viṣṇu has three forms called  puruṣas . The first, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is the creator of the total material energy [mahat], the second is Garbhodaśāyī, who is situated within each universe, and the third is Kṣīrodaśāyī, who lives in the heart of every living being. He who knows these three becomes liberated from the clutches of māyā.”
PURPORT
This verse appears in the  Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta  ( Pūrva-khaṇḍa , 33), where it has been quoted from the  Sātvata Tantra .