46 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 1

yama-presyan visnudiita
vdrayam Gsur ojasa

vikarsatah—snatching; antah hrdayaét—from within the heart; dasi-
patim—the husband of the prostitute; ajémilam—Ajamila; yama-pre-
syan—the messengers of Yamaraja; visnu-ditadh—the order carriers of
Lord Visnu; vérayaém adsuh—forbade; ojasa—with resounding voices.

TRANSLATION

The order carriers of Yamaraja were snatching the soul from the
core of the heart of Ajamila, the husband of the prostitute, but
with resounding voices the messengers of Lord Visnu, the
Visnuditas, forbade them to do so.

PURPORT

A Vaisnava, one who has surrendered to the lotus feet of Lord Visnu,
is always protected by Lord Visnu’s order carriers. Because Ajamila had
chanted the holy name of Narayana, the Visnuditas not only im-
mediately arrived on the spot but also at once ordered the Yamadiitas not
to touch him. By speaking with resounding voices, the Visnuditas
threatened to punish the Yamaditas if they continued trying to snatch
Ajamila’s soul from his heart. The order carriers of Yamaraja have
jurisdiction over all sinful living entities, but the messengers of Lord
Visnu, the Visnuditas, are capable of punishing anyone, including
Yamaraja, if he wrongs a Vaisnava.

Materialistic scientists do not know where to find the soul within the
body with their material instruments, but this verse clearly explains that
the soul is within the core of the heart (hrdaya); it is from the heart that
the Yamaditas were extracting the soul of Ajamila. Similarly, we learn
that the Supersoul, Lord Visnu, is also situated within the heart (ivarah
sarva-bhitanam hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati). In the Upanisads it is said that
the Supersoul and the individual soul are living in the same tree of the
body as two friendly birds. The Supersoul is said to be friendly because
the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the original soul that
when the original soul transmigrates from one body to another, the Lord
goes with him. Furthermore, according to the desire and karma of the in-
