224
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 12]
ojaḥ —the strength of the senses;  sahaḥ —the strength of the mind;  balam —the strength of the body;  prāṇam —the living condition;  amṛtam —immortality;  mṛtyum —death;  eva —indeed;  ca —also;  tam —Him (the Supreme Lord);  ajñāya —without knowing;  janaḥ —a foolish person;  hetum —the cause;  ātmānam —the body;  manyate —considers;  jaḍam —although as good as stone.
TRANSLATION
Our sensory prowess, mental power, bodily strength, living force, immortality and mortality are all subject to the superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not knowing this, foolish people think the dull material body to be the cause of their activities.
TEXT 10
यथा दारुमयी नारी यथा पत्रमयो मृगः । एवं भूतानि मघवन्नीशतन्त्राणि विद्धि भोः ॥१०॥
yathā dārumayī nārī   yathā patramayo mṛgaḥ   evam bhūtāni maghavann   īśa-tantrāṇi viddhi bhoḥ
yathā —just as;  dāru-mayī —made of wood;  nārī —a woman;  yathā —just as;  patra-mayaḥ —made of leaves;  mṛgaḥ —an animal;  evam —thus;  bhūtāni —all things;  maghavan —O King Indra;  īśa —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  tantrāṇi —depending upon;  viddhi —please know;  bhoḥ —O sir.
TRANSLATION
O King Indra, as a wooden doll that looks like a woman or as an animal made of grass and leaves cannot move or dance independently, but depends fully on the person who handles it, all of us dance according to the desire of the supreme controller, the Personality of Godhead. No one is independent.