Text 13] The Movements of the Living Entities 1325

having fallen; ma@yam—into maya; dste—remains; visuddham—completely
pure; avikaram—without change; akhanda-bodham-— possessed of unlimited
knowledge; atapyamana—repentant; hrdaye—in the heart; avasitam—
residing; namami—I offer my respectful obeisances.

TRANSLATION

I, the pure soul, appearing now to be bound up by my activities, am
lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya. I offer my
respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is
unaffected and changeless. He is unlimited, but He is perceived in the
repentant heart. To Him I offer my respectful obeisances.

PURPORT

As stated in the previous verse, the jiva soul says, “I take shelter of the
Supreme Lord.” Therefore, constitutionally, the jiva soul is the subordinate
servitor of the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead. Both the Su-
preme Soul and the jiva soul are sitting in the same body, as confirmed in
the Upanisads. They are sitting as friends, but one is suffering, and the
other is aloof from the suffering condition of life.

In this verse it is said, viguddham avikaram akhanda-bodham: the
Supersoul is always sitting apart from all contamination. The living entity
is contaminated and is suffering because he has a material body, but that
does not mean that because the Lord is also with him, He also has a
material body. He is avikaram, changeless. He is always the same
Supreme, but unfortunately the Mayavadi philosophers, because of their
impure hearts, cannot understand that the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul,
is different from the individual soul. It is said here, atapyamdna-
hrdaye ’vasitam: He is in the heart of every living entity, but He can be
realized only by a soul who is repentant. The individual soul becomes
repentant that he forgot his constitutional position, wanted to become
one with the Supreme Soul and tried his best to lord it over material
nature. He has been baffled, and therefore he is repentant. At that time,
Supersoul, or the relationship between the Supersoul and the individual
soul, is realized. As it is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, after many, many
births the knowledge comes to the conditioned soul that Vasudeva is
great, He is master, and He is Lord. The individual soul is the servant, and
therefore he surrenders unto Him. At that time he becomes a mahatma, a
great soul. Therefore, a fortunate living being who comes to this under-
standing, even within the womb of his mother, has his liberation assured.
