Text 20] The Atrocities of King Karnsa 293

isvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati

bhrémayan sarva-bhitani
yantraridhani maéyaya

“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.” Neither the Supersoul,
Paramatma, nor the individual soul changes its original, spiritual iden-
tity. The dtmd does not undergo birth, death or changes like the body.
Therefore a Vedic aphorism says, asarigo hy ayam purusah: although the
soul is conditioned within this material world, he has no connections with
the changes of the material body.

TEXT 20
qartaaat At aa oars: |
wena a aah Pad lzoll

yathanevam-vido bhedo
yata atma-viparyayah

deha-yoga-viyogau ca
samsrtir na nivartate

yatha—as; an-evam-vidah—of a person who has no knowledge
(about dtma-tattva and the steadiness of the dtm in his own identity,
despite the changes of the body); bhedah—the idea of difference be-
tween body and self; yatah—because of which; dtma-viparyayah—the
foolish understanding that one is the body; deha-yoga-viyogau ca—and
this causes connections and separations among different bodies;
samsrtih—the continuation of conditioned life; na—not; nivartate—
does stop.

TRANSLATION

One who does not understand the constitutional position of the
body and the soul [atma] becomes too attached to the bodily con-
cept of life. Consequently, because of attachment to the body and
its by-products, he feels affected by union with and separation
