PLATE THREE
Whether boss or laborer, master or servant, president or prisoner, everyone in this world is under the tight control of the three modes of material nature (goodness, passion, and ignorance), which in turn are controlled by Lord Kṛṣṇa. It is only out of illusion that people imagine themselves to be free. (After all, is anyone free to prevent his own death?) As Kṛṣṇa explains in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (3.27): “The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature.” ( pp.  25–35)