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four-handed Supersoul within one’s heart and see Him perpetually in
meditation. Such continued meditation is called samadhi, and the object
of this meditation is the four-handed Narayana, with bodily decorations as
described in this chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam. If, however, one wants to
meditate upon something void or impersonal, it will take a very long time
before he achieves success in yoga practice. We cannot concentrate our
mind on something which is void or impersonal. Real yoga is to fix the
mind on the form of the Lord, the four-handed Narayana who is sitting in
everyone’s heart.

By meditation one can understand that God is seated within one’s
heart. Even if one does not know it, God is seated within the heart of
everyone. He is not only seated in the heart of the human being, but He is
also within the hearts of cats and dogs. Bhagavad-gita certifies this fact by
the declaration of the Lord, isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese. The isvara,
the supreme controller of the world, is seated in the heart of everyone. He
is not only in everyone’s heart, but He is also present within the atom. No
place is vacant or devoid of the presence of the Lord. That is the statement
of [gopanisad. God is present everywhere, and His right of proprietorship
applies to everything. The feature of the Lord by which He is present
everywhere is called Paramatma. Atma means the individual soul, and
Paramatma means the individual Supersoul; both atma and Paramatma are
individual persons. The difference between atma and Paramatma is that the
atma or the soul is present only in a particular body, whereas the
Paramatma is present everywhere. In this connection, the example of the
sun is very nice. An individual person may be situated in one place, but
the sun, even though a similar individual entity, is present on the head of
every individual person. In Bhagavad-gita this is explained. Therefore even
though the qualities of all entities, including the Lord, are equal, the
Supersoul is different from the individual soul by quantitative power of
expansion. The Lord or the Supersoul can expand Himself into millions of
different forms, whereas the individual soul cannot do so.

The Supersoul, being seated in everyone’s heart, can witness everyone’s
aclivities—past, present and future. In the Upanisads the Supersoul is de-
scribed as being seated with the individual soul as friend and witness. As a
friend, the Lord is always anxious to get back His friend, the individual soul,
and bring him back home, back to Godhead. As a witness He is the bestower
of all benedictions, and He endows each individual with the result of his ac-
tions. The Supersoul gives the individual soul all facilities to achieve what-
ever he desires to enjoy in this material world. Suffering is a reaction to the
living entity’s propensity to try to lord it over the material world. But the
Lord instructs His friend, the individual soul, how is also His son, to give up
