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Description of the Kingdom of God
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four-handed Supersoul within one's heart and see Him perpetually in meditation. Such continued meditation is called  samādhi , and the object of this meditation is the four-handed Nārāyaṇa, with bodily decorations as described in this chapter of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . If, however, one wants to meditate upon something void or impersonal, it will take a very long time before he achieves success in  yoga  practice. We cannot concentrate our mind on something which is void or impersonal. Real  yoga  is to fix the mind on the form of the Lord, the four-handed Nārāyaṇa who is sitting in everyone's heart.
By meditation one can understand that God is seated within one's heart. Even if one does not know it, God is seated within the heart of everyone. He is not only seated in the heart of the human being, but He is also within the hearts of cats and dogs.  Bhagavad-gītā  certifies this fact by the declaration of the Lord,  īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānām hṛd-deśe . The  īśvara , the supreme controller of the world, is seated in the heart of everyone. He is not only in everyone's heart, but He is also present within the atom. No place is vacant or devoid of the presence of the Lord. That is the statement of  īśopaniṣad . God is present everywhere, and His right of proprietorship applies to everything. The feature of the Lord by which He is present everywhere is called  Paramātmā .  Ātmā  means the individual soul, and  Paramātmā  means the individual Supersoul; both  ātmā  and  Paramātmā  are individual persons. The difference between  ātmā  and  Paramātmā  is that the  ātmā  or the soul is present only in a particular body, whereas the  Paramātmā  is present everywhere. In this connection, the example of the sun is very nice. An individual person may be situated in one place, but the sun, even though a similar individual entity, is present on the head of every individual person. In  Bhagavad-gītā  this is explained. Therefore even though the qualities of all entities, including the Lord, are equal, the Supersoul is different from the individual soul by quantitative power of expansion. The Lord or the Supersoul can expand Himself into millions of different forms, whereas the individual soul cannot do so.
The Supersoul, being seated in everyone's heart, can witness everyone's activities—past, present and future. In the  Upaniṣads  the Supersoul is described as being seated with the individual soul as friend and witness. As a friend, the Lord is always anxious to get back His friend, the individual soul, and bring him back home, back to Godhead. As a witness He is the bestower of all benedictions, and He endows each individual with the result of his actions. The Supersoul gives the individual soul all facilities to achieve whatever he desires to enjoy in this material world. Suffering is a reaction to the living entity's propensity to try to lord it over the material world. But the Lord instructs His friend, the individual soul, how is also His son, to give up