800 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 20

apy avayor eka-pati-sprdhoh kalir
na syat krta-tvac-caranaika-tanayoh

atha—therefore; abhaje—I shall engage in devotional service; tva—unto
You; akhila—all-inclusive; piirusa-uttamam—the Supreme Personality of
Godhead; guna-alayam—the reservoir of all transcendental qualities; padma-
kara—the goddess of fortune, who carries a lotus flower in her hand; iva—
like; lalasah—being desirous; api—indeed; dvayoh—of Laksmi and me; eka-
pati—one master; sprdhoh—competing; kalih—quarrel; na—not; syat—may
take place; krta—having done; tvat-carana—unto Your lotus feet; eka-
tanayoh—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-pirusottama, the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead who is Lord of the entire creation. Purusa means the
enjoyer, and uttama means the best. There are different kinds of purusas
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 alleternals(nityo nityanam). Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead
and the living entities are eternal. The supreme eternals are the visnu-
tattva or Lord Visnu and His expansions. So nitya refers to the Personality
of Godhead beginning from Krsna up to Maha-Visnu, Narayana and other
expansions of Lord Krsna. As stated in the Brahma-samhita (ramadi-
murtisu) there are millions and trillions of expansions of Lord Visnu as
Rama, Nrsimha, Varaha 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
