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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
TEXT 8
योऽध्यात्मिकोऽयं पुरुषः सोऽसावेवाधिदैविकः । यस्तत्रोभयविच्छेदः पुरुषो ह्याधिभौतिकः ॥ ८ ॥
yo 'dhyātmiko 'yam puruṣaḥ so 'sāv evādhidaivikaḥ yas tatrobhayavicchedaḥ puruṣo hyādhibhautikaḥ
yaḥ —one who;  adhyātmikaḥ —is possessed of the sense organs;  ayam —this;  puruṣaḥ —personality;  saḥ —he;  asau —that;  eva —also;  adhidaivikaḥ —controlling deity;  yaḥ —that which;  tatra —there;  ubhaya —of both;  vicchedaḥ —separation;  puruṣaḥ —person;  hi —for;  ādhibhautikaḥ —the visible body or the embodied living entity.
TRANSLATION
The individual person possessing different instruments of senses is called the adhyātmic person, and the individual controlling deity of the senses is called adhidaivic. And the embodiment which is seen on the eyeballs is called the adhibhautic person.
PURPORT
The supreme controlling  summum bonum  is the Personality of Godhead in His plenary portion of Paramātmā or the Supersoul manifestation. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said:
athavā bahunaitena kim jñātena tavārjuna viṣṭabhyāham idam kṛtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat
“All the controlling deities like Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva are different manifestations of the Paramātmā feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and He exhibits himself in such manners by entering into each and every universe generated from Him.” (Bg. 10.42) But still apparently there are divisions of the controller and controlled. For example, in the food-controlling department the controller of food is a person made of the same ingredients as the person who is controlled. Similarly, each and every individual in the material world is controlled by