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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 2]
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) The body is just like a machine, and according to the living entity’s  karma , he is offered a particular type of machine to move here and there under the control of material nature. This continues until he surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ( mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etām taranti te ). Until he surrenders, the conditioned soul is carried from life to life by the arrangement of material nature.
TEXT 23
यथाम्भसा प्रचलता तरवोऽपि चला इव । चक्षुषा भ्राम्यमाणेन दृश्यते चलतीव भूः ॥२३॥
yathāmbhasā pracalatā taravo 'pi calā iva cakṣuṣā bhrāmyamāṇena dṛśyate calatīva bhūḥ
yathā —just as;  ambhasā —by water;  pracalatā —moving;  taravaḥ —the trees (on the bank of the river);  api —also;  calāḥ —moving;  iva —as if;  cakṣuṣā —by the eye;  bhrāmyamāṇena —moving;  dṛśyate —is seen;  calatī —moving;  iva —as if;  bhūḥ —the ground.
TRANSLATION
Because of the movements of the water, the trees on the bank of a river, when reflected on the water, seem to move. Similarly, when the eyes move because of some mental derangement, the land appears to move also.
PURPORT
Sometimes, because of mental derangement, the land appears to be moving. A drunkard, for example, or a person with heart disease, some-