Text 36]
Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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īsvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
The Lord is situated in the heart of all living beings (as Paramātmā), and He is controlling all of them in the material world under the agency of His external energy. Therefore it is clearly mentioned that the Lord is the supreme controller and that the living entities are controlled by the Lord. In the same  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 18.65) the Lord directs as follows:
manmanā bhava mad-bhakto madyājī māṁ namaskuru mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo 'si me
It is clear in this verse of the  Bhagavad-gītā  that the direction of the Lord is that one should be Godminded, a devotee of the Lord, a worshiper of the Lord, and must offer all obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, and by so doing, the devotee will undoubtedly go back to Godhead, back to home.
Indirectly it is said that the whole Vedic social construction of human society is so made that everyone acts as the part and parcel of the complete body of the Lord. The intelligent class of men, or the  brāhmaṇas , are situated on the face of the Lord; the administrative class of men, or the  kṣatriyas , are situated on the arms of the Lord; the productive class of men, or the  vaiśyas , are situated on the belt of the Lord; and the laborer class of men, or the  śūdras , are situated on the legs of the Lord. Therefore the complete social construction is the body of the Lord, and each and every part of the body, namely the  brāhmaṇas , the  kṣatriyas , the  vaiśyas  and the  śūdras , is meant to serve the Lord's whole body conjointly; otherwise it becomes unfit to be coordinated with the supreme consciousness of oneness. Universal consciousness is factually achieved by coordinated service of all concerned to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and that alone can insure total perfection.
Therefore even the great scientists, the great philosophers, the great mental speculators, the great politicians, the great industrialists and the great social reformers, etc., cannot give any relief to the restless society of the material world because they do not know the secret of success as mentioned in this verse of the  Bhāgavatam , namely that one must know the mystery of  bhakti-yoga . In the  Bhagavad-gītā  also it is said,