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The Movements of the Living Entities
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having fallen;  māyām —into  māyā ;  āste —remains;  viśuddham —completely pure;  avikāram —without change;  akhaṇḍa-bodham —possessed of unlimited knowledge;  ātapyamāna —repentant;  hṛdaye —in the heart;  avasitam —residing;  namāmi —I offer my respectful obeisances.
TRANSLATION
I, the pure soul, appearing now to be bound up by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of  māyā . I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is unaffected and changeless. He is unlimited, but He is perceived in the repentant heart. To Him I offer my respectful obeisances.
PURPORT
As stated in the previous verse, the  jīva  soul says, “I take shelter of the Supreme Lord.” Therefore, constitutionally, the  jīva  soul is the subordinate servitor of the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead. Both the Supreme Soul and the  jīva  soul are sitting in the same body, as confirmed in the  Upaniṣads . They are sitting as friends, but one is suffering, and the other is aloof from the suffering condition of life.
In this verse it is said,  viśuddham avikāram akhaṇḍa-bodham : the Supersoul is always sitting apart from all contamination. The living entity is contaminated and is suffering because he has a material body, but that does not mean that because the Lord is also with him, He also has a material body. He is  avikāram , changeless. He is always the same Supreme, but unfortunately the  Māyāvādī  philosophers, because of their impure hearts, cannot understand that the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul, is different from the individual soul. It is said here,  ātapyamāna-hṛdaye 'vasitam : He is in the heart of every living entity, but He can be realized only by a soul who is repentant. The individual soul becomes repentant that he forgot his constitutional position, wanted to become one with the Supreme Soul and tried his best to lord it over material nature. He has been baffled, and therefore he is repentant. At that time, Supersoul, or the relationship between the Supersoul and the individual soul, is realized. As it is confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā , after many, many births the knowledge comes to the conditioned soul that  Vāsudeva  is great,  He  is master, and  He  is Lord. The individual soul is the servant, and therefore he surrenders unto Him. At that time he becomes a  mahātmā , a great soul. Therefore, a fortunate living being who comes to this understanding, even within the womb of his mother, has his liberation assured.