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[Canto 6, Ch. 4]
innumerable eternals and the supreme living being among the innumerable living beings. The Lord is a person who also has impersonal features. As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (1.2.11):
vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate
“Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this non-dual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.” Consideration of the Paramātmā and impersonal Brahman arose after the creation; before the creation, only the Supreme Personality of Godhead existed. As firmly declared in  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.55), the Lord can be understood only by  bhakti-yoga . The ultimate cause, the supreme cause of creation, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can be understood only by  bhakti-yoga . He cannot be understood by speculative philosophical research or by meditation, since all such processes came into existence after the material creation. The impersonal and localized conceptions of the Supreme Lord are more or less materially contaminated. The real spiritual process, therefore, is  bhakti-yoga . As the Lord says,  bhaktyā mām abhijānāti : “Only by devotional service can I be understood.” Before the creation, the Lord existed as a person, as indicated here by the word  aham . When Prajāpati Dakṣa saw Him as a person, who was beautifully dressed and ornamented, he actually experienced the meaning of this word  aham  through devotional service.
Each person is eternal. Because the Lord says that He existed as a person before the creation ( agre ) and will also exist after the annihilation, the Lord is a person eternally. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura therefore quotes these verses from  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (10.9.13–14):
na cāntar na bahir yasya na pūrvaṁ nāpi cāparam pūrvāparaṁ bahiś cāntar jagato yo jagac ca yaḥ