Text 36] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 523

i$varah sarva-bhiitanam hrd-deée ’rjuna tisthati
bhramayan sarva-bhittani yantraridhani mayaya

The Lord is situated in the heart of all living beings (as Paramatma), and
He is controlling all of them in the material world under the agency of His
external energy. Therefore it is clearly mentioned that the Lord is the
supreme controller and that the living entities are controlled by the Lord.
In the same Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 18.65) the Lord directs as follows:

manmana bhava mad-bhakto
mad yaji mar namaskuru

mam evaisyasi satyam te
pratijane priyo ’si me

It is clear in this verse of the Bhagavad-gita that the direction of the Lord
is that one should be Godminded, a devotee of the Lord, a worshiper of the
Lord, and must offer all obeisances unto Lord Krsna, and by so doing, the
devotee will undoubtedly go back to Godhead, back to home.

Indirectly it is said that the whole Vedic social construction of human
society is so made that everyone acts as the part and parcel of the complete
body of the Lord. The intelligent class of men, or the brahmanas, are
situated on the face of the Lord; the administrative class of men, or the
ksatriyas, are situated on the arms of the Lord; the productive class of
men, or the vaisyas, are situated on the belt of the Lord; and the laborer
class of men, or the Siidras, are situated on the legs of the Lord. Therefore
the complete social construction is the body of the Lord, and each and
every part of the body, namely the brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas
and the sudras, is meant to serve the Lord’s whole body conjointly; other-
wise it becomes unfit to be coordinated with the supreme consciousness of
oneness. Universal consciousness is factually achieved by coordinated ser-
vice of all concerned to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and that
alone can insure total perfection.

Therefore even the great scientists, the great philosophers, the great
mental speculators, the great politicians, the great industrialists and the
great social reformers, etc., cannot give any relief to the restless society of
the material world because they do not know the secret of success as
mentioned in this verse of the Bhagavatam, namely that one must know
the mystery of bhakti-yoga. In the Bhagavad-gita also it is said,
