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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 31]
hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune, but the Supreme Lord does not require service from any of them because if He so desires He can produce millions of goddesses of fortune through His spiritual energy, the pleasure potency. This very Personality of Godhead, out of His causeless mercy, becomes dependent on the devotees. How fortunate, then, is a devotee who is thus favored by the Personality of Godhead. What ungrateful devotee will not worship the Lord and enter into His devotional service? Actually a devotee cannot forget his obligation to the Supreme Personality of Godhead even for a single moment. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura says that both the Supreme Lord and His devotee are  rasa-jña , full of transcendental humor. The mutual attachment between the Supreme Lord and His devotee is never to be considered material. It always exists as a transcendental fact. There are eight types of transcendental ecstasy (known as  bhāva ,  anubhāva ,  sthayībhāva  and so on), and these are discussed in  The Nectar of Devotion . Those who are unaware of the position of the living entity and the Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa, think that the mutual attachment between the Lord and His devotees is a creation of the material energy. Factually such attachment is natural both for the Supreme Lord and for the devotee, and it cannot be accepted as material.
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मैत्रेय उवाच
इति प्रचेतसो राजनन्याश्च भगवत्कथाः ।
श्रावयित्वा ब्रह्मलोकं ययौ स्वायम्भुवो मुनिः ॥२३॥
maitreya uvāca iti pracetaso rājann anyāś ca bhagavat-kathāḥ śrāvayitvā brahma-lokam yayau svāyambhuvo muniḥ
maitreyaḥ uvāca —Maitreya said;  iti —thus;  pracetasaḥ —the Pracetās;  rājan —O King;  anyāḥ —others;  ca —also;  bhagavat-kathāḥ —topics about the relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  śrāvayitvā —after instructing;  brahma-lokam —to Brahmaloka;  yayau —went back;  svāyam-bhuvaḥ —the son of Lord Brahmā;  muniḥ —the great sage.