Text 63] Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi 1449
posed of mind, intelligence and ego. Thus he would get another chance by
the grace of the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul, who is always within the
heart.
sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto
mattah smrtir jidnam apohanam ca
vedai§ ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham
“I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowl-
edge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, | am to be known; indeed I am
the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.”’ (Bg. 15.15)

In the next birth, one acquires remembrance from the Supersoul and
begins to execute the plans begun in the previous life. This is also explained
in Bhagavad-gita in another verse:

isvarah sarva-bhiitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati
bhrdmayan sarva-bhiitani
yantraridhani mayaya
“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing
the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made
of the material energy.” (Bg. 18.61)

Situated on the vehicle given by material nature and reminded by the
Supersoul within the heart, the living entity struggles all over the universe
to fulfill his plans, thinking, “I am a brahmana, | am a ksatriya. | am an
American, I am an Indian,” and so on. All these designations are of the
same essence. There is no point in becoming a brahmana in preference to
an American or becoming an American in preference to a Negro. After all,
these are all bodily conceptions under the modes of material nature.

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yathanumiyate cittam
ubhayair indriyehitaih
evar prag-dehajam karma
laksyate citta-vrttibhih
