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Mahārāja Pṛthu's Going Back Home
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taṁ cānuśayam ātma-stham asāv anuśayī pumān jñāna-vairāgya-vīryeṇa svarūpa-stho 'jahāt prabhuḥ
tam—unto Him; sarva-guṇa-vinyāsam—the reservoir of all qualities; jīve—unto the designations; māyāmaye—the reservoir of all potencies; nyadhāt—placed; tam—that; ca—also; anuśayam—designation; ātma-stham—situated in self-realization; asau—he; anuśayī—the living entity; pumān—the enjoyer; jñāna—knowledge; vairāgya—renunciation; vīryeṇa—by the prowess of; svarūpa-sthaḥ—being situated in one's constitutional position; ajahāt—returned back home; prabhuḥ—the controller.
TRANSLATION
Pṛthu Mahārāja then offered the total designation of the living entity unto the supreme controller of illusory energy. Being released from all the designations by which the living entity became entrapped, he became free by knowledge and renunciation and by the spiritual force of his devotional service. In this way, being situated in his original constitutional position of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gave up this body as a prabhu, or controller of the senses.
PURPORT
As stated in the  Vedas , the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the source of material energy. Consequently He is sometimes called  māyāmaya , or the Supreme Person who can create His pastimes through His potency known as the material energy. The  jīva , or the individual living entity, becomes entrapped by the material energy by the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In  Bhagavad-gītā  we understand:
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.” (Bg. 18.61)
Īśvara , the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is situated within the heart of all conditioned souls, and by His supreme will the living entity or individual