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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 9]
TRANSLATION
Your Lordship, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You who are indefatigable time and the enjoyer of all sacrifices. Although I am situated in an abode which will continue to exist for a time duration of two parārdhas, although I am the leader of all other planets in the universe, and although I have undergone many, many years of penance for self-realization, still I offer my respects unto You.
PURPORT
Brahmā is the greatest personality in the universe because he has the longest duration of life. He is the most respectable personality because of his penance, influence, prestige, etc., and still he has to offer his respectful obeisances unto the Lord. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all others, who are far, far below the standard of Brahmā, to do as he did and offer respects as a matter of duty.
TEXT 19
तिर्यञ्चनुष्यविबुधादिषु जीवयोनि- 
    ष्वात्मेच्छयाऽत्मकृतसेतुपरीप्सया यः । 
    रेमे निरस्तविषयोऽप्यवरुद्धदेह- 
    स्तस्मै नमो भगवते पुरुषोत्तमाय ॥१९॥
tiryaṅ-manuṣya-vibudhādiṣu jīva-yoniṣu 
    ātmecchayātma-kṛta-setu-parīpsayā yaḥ 
    reme nirasta-viṣayo 'py avaruddha-dehas 
    tasmai namo bhagavate puruṣottamāya
tiryañc—animals lower than human beings; manuṣya—human beings, etc.; vibudha-ādiṣu—amongst the demigods; jīva-yoniṣu—in different species of life; ātma—self; icchayā—by the will; ātma-kṛta—self-created; setu—obligations; parīpsayā—desiring to preserve; yaḥ—who; reme—performing transcendental pastimes; nirasta—not being affected; viṣayaḥ—material contamination; api—certainly; avaruddha—manifested; dehaḥ—transcendental body; tasmai—unto Him; namaḥ—my obeisances; bhagavate—unto the Personality of Godhead; puruṣottamāya—the primeval Lord.
TRANSLATION
O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among