Text 9] Bhagavatam is the Answer 559

the higher demigods. For example, we have our senses, but the senses are
controlled by superior controlling deities. We cannot see without light,
and the supreme controller of light is the sun. The sun-god is in the sun
planet, and we, the individual human beings or any other being on this
earth, are all controlled by the sun-god as far as our eyes are concerned.
Similarly, all the senses that we have are controlled by the superior demi-
gods, who are also as much living entities as we are, but one is empowered
while the other is controlled. The controlled living entity is called the
adhyatmic person, and the controller is called the adhidaivic person. All
these positions in the material world are due to different fruitive activities.
Any individual living being can become the sun-god or even Brahma or any
other god in the upper planetary system by a higher grade of pious work,
and similarly one becomes controlled by the higher demigods by lower
grades of fruitive activities. So every individual living entity is subject to
the supreme control of the Paramatma, who puts everyone in different
positions of the controller and the controlled.

That which distinguishes the controller and controlled, i.e. the material
body, is called the adhibhautic purusa. The body is sometimes called
purusa, as is confirmed in the Vedas in the following hymn: “sa va esa
puruso ‘nna-rasamaya.”’ This body is called anna-rasa embodiment. This
body depends on food. The living entity which is embodied does not eat
anything, however, because the owner is spirit in essence. The material
body requires replacement of matters for the wearing and tearing of the
mechanical body. Therefore the distinction between the individual living
entity and controlling planetary deities is in the anna-rasamaya body. The
sun may have a gigantic body, and the man may have a smaller body, but
all these visible bodies are made of matter; nonetheless, the sun-god and the
individual person related as the controller and the controlled are the same
spiritual parts and parcels of the Supreme Being, and it is the Supreme
Being who places different parts and parcels in different positions. And
thus the conclusion is that the Supreme Person is the shelter of all.

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CEASA =A AT |
frrd TA A IS A ATM SATIPTA: 118 II

ekam ekatarabhave
yada nopalabhamahe
