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Bhāgavatam is the Answer
569
antaḥ śarīre —within the body;  ākāśāt —from the sky;  puruṣasya —of Mahā-Viṣṇu;  viceṣṭataḥ —while so trying, or willing;  ojaḥ —energy of the senses;  sahaḥ —mental force;  balam —bodily strength;  jajñe —generated;  tataḥ —thereafter;  prāṇaḥ —living force;  mahān asuḥ —the fountainhead of everyone's life.
TRANSLATION
From the sky situated within the transcendental body of the manifesting Mahā-Viṣṇu, sense energy, mental force and bodily strength are all generated, as well as the sum total of the fountainhead of the total living force.
TEXT 16
अनुप्राणन्ति यं प्राणाः प्राणन्तं सर्वजन्तुषु । 
    अपानन्तमपानन्ति नरदेवमिवानुगाः ॥१६॥
anu prāṇanti yam prāṇāh 
    prāṇantam sarva-jantuṣu 
    apānantam apānanti 
    nara-devam ivānugāḥ
anu prāṇanti —follow the living symptoms;  yam —whom;  prāṇāh —senses;  prāṇantam —endeavoring;  sarva-jantuṣu —in all living entities;  apānantam —stop endeavoring;  apānanti —all others stop;  nara-devam —the king;  iva —like;  anugāḥ —the followers.
TRANSLATION
As the followers of the king follow their lord, similarly when the total energy is in motion, all other living entities move, and when the total energy stops endeavoring, all other living entities stop sense activities.
PURPORT
The individual living entities are completely dependent on the total energy of the supreme  puruṣa . No one has independent existence, just as no electric lamp has independent effulgence. Each and every electrical instrument depends fully on the total powerhouse; the total powerhouse