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The History of the Life of Ajāmila
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dividual soul, the Lord, through the agency of  māyā , creates another body for him.
The heart of the body is a mechanical arrangement. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.61):
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānām 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.”  Yantra  means a machine, such as an automobile. The driver of the machine of the body is the individual soul, who is also its director or proprietor, but the supreme proprietor is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One’s body is created through the agency of  māyā  ( karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa ), and according to one’s activities in this life, another vehicle is created, again under the supervision of  daivī māyā  ( daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā ). At the appropriate time, one’s next body is immediately chosen, and both the individual soul and the Supersoul transfer to that particular bodily machine. This is the process of transmigration. During transmigration from one body to the next, the soul is taken away by the order carriers of Yamarāja and put into a particular type of hellish life ( naraka ) in order to become accustomed to the condition in which he will live in his next body.
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ऊचुर्निषेधितास्तांस्ते वैवस्वतपुरःसराः । के यूयं प्रतिषेद्धारो धर्मराजस्य शासनम् ॥३२॥
ūcur niṣedhitās tāṁs te vaivasvata-puraḥsarāḥ ke yūyaṁ pratiṣeddhāro dharma-rājasya śāsanam