Text 18] Maharaja Prthu’s Going Back Home 997

tam canusayam atma-stham
asdv anusayi puman

jfidna-vairagya-viryena
svariipa-stho ‘jahat prabhuh

tam—unto Him; sarva-guna-vinyasam—the reservoir of all qualities; jive—
unto the designations; mayamaye—the reservoir of all potencies; nyadhat—
placed; tam—that; ca—also; anusayam— designation; atma-stham— situated
in self-realization ; asau—he; anusayi—the living entity ; puman—the enjoyer;
jiadna—knowledge; vairagya—renunciation; viryena—by the prowess of;
svariipa-sthah—being situated in one’s constitutional position; ajahat—
returned back home; prabhuh—the controller.

TRANSLATION

Prthu Maharaja then offered the total designation of the living entity
unto the supreme controller of illusory energy. Being released from all the
designations by which the living entity became entrapped, he became free
by knowledge and renunciation and by the spiritual force of his devotional
service. In this way, being situated in his original constitutional position of
Krsna consciousness, he gave up this body as a prabhu, or controller of
the senses.

PURPORT

As stated in the Vedas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
source of material energy. Consequently He is sometimes called mayamaya,
or the Supreme Person who can create His pastimes through His potency
known as the material energy. The jiva, or the individual living entity,
becomes entrapped by the material energy by the supreme will of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Bhagavad-gita we understand:

isvarah sarva-bhutanam
hrd-dese ‘rjuna tisthati

bhramayan sarva-bhutani
yantrarudhani mayaya

“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is direct-
ing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine,
made of the material energy.” (Bg. 18.61)

Isvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is situated within the heart of
all conditioned souls, and by His supreme will the living entity or individual
