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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 16]
conditional life in the material world, and therefore he is described as  prabhu  (“the master”). If he likes he can come to this material world, and if he likes he can return home, back to Godhead. Because he wanted to enjoy this material world, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gave him a material body through the agency of the material energy. As the Lord Himself says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.61):
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.” The Supreme Lord gives the living entity a chance to enjoy in this material world as he desires, but He openly expresses His own desire that the living entity give up all material aspirations, fully surrender unto Him and return home, back to Godhead.
The living entity is the smallest ( sūkṣma ). Jīva Gosvāmī says in this connection that the living entity within the body is extremely difficult for materialistic scientists to find, although we understand from authorities that the living entity is within the body. The body is different from the living entity.
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न ह्यस्यारितप्रियः कश्चिन्नाप्रियः स्वः परोऽपि वा।
एकः सर्वधियां द्रष्टा कर्तुं णां गुणदोषयोः ॥१०॥
na hy asyāsti priyaḥ kaścin nāpriyaḥ svaḥ paro 'pi vā ekaḥ sarva-dhiyāṁ draṣṭā kartīṇāṁ guṇa-doṣayoḥ
na—not; hi—indeed; asya—to the living entity; asti—there is; priyaḥ—dear; kaścit—someone; na—not; apriyaḥ—not dear; svaḥ—own; paraḥ—other; api—also; vā—or; ekaḥ—the one; sarva—