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TEXT 61 isvarah sarva-bhutanam
SYNONYMS  isvarah--the
Supreme Lord; sarva-bhutanam--of all living entities; hrt-dese--in
the location of the heart; arjuna--O Arjuna; tisthati--resides;
bhramayan--causing to travel; sarva-bhutani--all living entities;
yantra--machine; arudhani--being so placed; mayaya--under
the spell of material energy.
TRANSLATION The Supreme
Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings
of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material
energy.
PURPORT Arjuna was not
the supreme knower, and his decision to fight or not to fight was confined
to his limited discretion. Lord Krsna instructed that the individual is
not all in all. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, or He Himself, Krsna,
the localized Supersoul, sits in the heart directing the living being.
After changing bodies, the living entity forgets his past deeds, but the
Supersoul, as the knower of the past, present and future, remains the witness
of all his activities. Therefore all the activities of living entities
are directed by this Supersoul. The living entity gets what he deserves
and is carried by the material body which is created in the material energy
under the direction of the Supersoul. As soon as a living entity is placed
in a particular type of body, he has to work under the spell of that bodily
situation. A person seated in a high-speed motorcar goes faster than one
seated in a slower car, though the living entities, the drivers, may be
the same. Similarly, by the order of the Supreme Soul, material nature
fashions a particular type of body to a particular type of living entity
to work according to his past desires. The living entity is not independent.
One should not think himself independent of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. The individual is always under His control. Therefore his duty
is to surrender, and that is the injunction of the next verse.
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