Mantra Seven
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Bhagavad-gītā . Only those who surrender at the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Lord can overcome the stringent laws of Nature. If, therefore, we wish to get rid of all sorts of illusion and anxiety and create unity of all diverse interests, we must bring God into all our activities.
The results of our activities must be used to serve the interest of the Lord, and not for any other purpose, because only by serving the interest of the Lord can we feel the  ātma-bhūta  interest mentioned here in  Śrī Īśopaniṣad . This and the  Brahma-bhūta  interest mentioned in the  Bhagavad-gītā  are one and the same thing: The Supreme  Ātman , or Soul, is the Lord Himself, and the minute  ātman  is the living entity. The Supreme  Ātman  or  Paramātman  alone maintains all the individual minute beings, because the Supreme Lord wants to derive pleasure out of their affection. The father extends himself by his children and maintains them in order to derive pleasure. If the children of the father are obedient to his will, family affairs will run smoothly with one interest and a pleasing atmosphere. Exactly the same thing is transcendentally arranged in the  Brahman , or Absolute family of the  Param Brahman , the Supreme Spirit.
The  Param Brahman  is as much a Person as the individual entities are. None of them are impersonal. Such transcendental personalities are full of transcendental bliss, knowledge and life eternal. That is the real position of spiritual existence, and as soon as one is fully cognizant of this transcendental position he at once surrenders unto the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Being, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. But such  mahātmās , Great Souls, are very rarely seen, because such transcendental realization is achieved only after many, many births. Once attained, however, there is no more illusion or distress, no more of the misery of material existence, and there is no birth and death as we experience in the present status of our life. That is the information we get from this  mantra  of  Śrī Īśopaniṣad .