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Ideal Family Life
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TEXT 37
पुराण्यनेन सृष्टानि नृतिर्यगृधिदेवताः । शेते जीवेन रूपेण पुरेषु पुरुषो ह्यसौ ॥३७॥
purāṇy anena sṛṣṭāni nṛ-tiryag-ṛṣi-devatāḥ śete jīvena rūpeṇa pureṣu puruṣo hy asau
purāṇi —residential places or bodies;  anena —by Him (the Supreme Personality of Godhead);  sṛṣṭāni —among those creations;  nṛ —man;  tiryak —other than human beings (animals, birds, etc);  ṛṣi —saintly persons;  devatāḥ —and demigods;  śete —lies down;  jīvena —with the living entities;  rūpeṇa —in the form of Paramātmā;  pureṣu —within these residential places or bodies;  puruṣaḥ —the Supreme Lord;  hi —indeed;  asau —He (the Personality of Godhead).
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as Paramātmā. Thus He is known as the puruṣāvatāra.
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.61) it is said:
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 living entity, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exists on the mercy of