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The Lord in the Heart
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gains, he petitions the respective demigods to draw some particular benefit which is, after all, illusory and nonpermanent. The enlightened transcendentalist is not captivated by such illusory things; therefore he is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. In the previous verse it is suggested that one should think of the Supersoul, which is one step higher than the impersonal thought of Brahman, as it was suggested in the case of contemplating the  virāṭa rūpa  of the Personality of Godhead.
Intelligent persons who can see properly may look into the general conditions of the living entities who are wandering in the cycle of the 8,400,000 species of life, as well as in different classes of human beings. It is said that there is an everlasting belt of water called the River Vaitaraṇī at the entrance of the plutonic planet of Yamarāja, who punishes sinners in different manners. After being subjected to such sufferings, a sinner is awarded a particular species of life according to his deeds in the past. Such living entities as are punished by the Yamarāja are seen in different varieties of conditioned life. Some of them are in heaven, and some of them are in hell. Some of them are  brāhmaṇas , and some of them are misers. But no one is happy in this material world, and all of them are either class A., B. or C. prisoners suffering because of their own deeds. The Lord is impartial to all circumstances of sufferings of the living entities, but to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet, the Lord gives proper protection, and He takes such a living entity again back home, back to Himself.
TEXT 8
केचित् स्वदेहान्तर्हृदयावकाशे 
    प्रादेशमात्रं पुरुषं वसन्तम् । 
    चतुर्भुजं कञ्चरयाङ्गशङ्ख- 
    गदाधरं धारणया सरन्ति ॥ ८ ॥
kecit sva-dehāntar-hṛdayāvakāśe 
    prādeśa-mātram puruṣaṁ vasantam 
    catur-bhujaṁ kañja-rathāṅga-śaṅkha- 
    gadādharaṁ dhāraṇayā smaranti
kecit—others; sva-deha-antar—within the body; hṛdaya-avakāśe—in the region of the heart; prādeśa-mātram—only measured by eight inches;