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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 20]
apy āvayor eka-pati-spṛdhoḥ kalir na syāt kṛta-tvac-caraṇaika-tānayoḥ
atha—therefore; ābhaje—I shall engage in devotional service; tvā—unto You; akhila—all-inclusive; pūruṣa-uttamam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; guṇa-ālayam—the reservoir of all transcendental qualities; padma-karā—the goddess of fortune, who carries a lotus flower in her hand; iva—like; lālasaḥ—being desirous; api—indeed; āvayoḥ—of Lakṣmī and me; eka-pati—one master; spṛdhoḥ—competing; kaliḥ—quarrel; na—not; syāt—may take place; kṛta—having done; tvat-caraṇa—unto Your lotus feet; eka-tānayoḥ—one attention.
TRANSLATION
Now I wish to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to serve just as the goddess of fortune who carries a lotus flower in her hand because His Lordship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities. I am afraid that the goddess of fortune and I will quarrel because both of us would be attentively engaged in the same service.
PURPORT
The Lord is here addressed as  akhila-pūruṣottama , the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is Lord of the entire creation.  Puruṣa  means the enjoyer, and  uttama  means the best. There are different kinds of  puruṣas  or enjoyers within the universe. Generally they can be divided into three classes—those who are conditioned, those who are liberated, and those who are eternal. In the  Vedas  the Supreme Lord is called the supreme eternal of all eternals ( nityo nityānām ). Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities are eternal. The supreme eternals are the  viṣṇu-tattva  or Lord Viṣṇu and His expansions. So  nitya  refers to the Personality of Godhead beginning from Kṛṣṇa up to Mahā-Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa and other expansions of Lord Kṛṣṇa. As stated in the  Brahma-saṁhitā  ( rāmādi-mūrtiṣu ) there are millions and trillions of expansions of Lord Viṣṇu as Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha and other incarnations. All of them are called eternals.
The word  mukta  refers to the living entities who never come within this material world. The  baddhas  are those living entities who are almost eternally living within this material world. The  baddhas  are struggling very hard within this material world to become free from the threefold miseries of material nature and to enjoy life, whereas the  muktas  are