Text 32] The History of the Life of Ajamila 47

dividual soul, the Lord, through the agency of maya, creates another
body for him.

The heart of the body is a mechanical arrangement. As the Lord says
in Bhagavad-gita (18.61):

i$varah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati

bhramayan sarva-bhitani
yantrariidhani 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.” Yantra means a machine, such
as an automobile. The driver of the machine of the body is the individual
soul, who is also its director or proprietor, but the supreme proprietor is
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One’s body is created through the
agency of maya (karmana daiva-netrena), and according to one’s ac-
tivities in this life, another vehicle is created, again under the supervi-
sion of daivi maya (daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya). At
the appropriate time, one’s next body is immediately chosen, and both
the individual soul and the Supersoul transfer to that particular bodily
machine. This is the process of transmigration. During transmigration
from one body to the next, the soul is taken away by the order carriers of
Yamaraja and put into a particular type of hellish life (naraka) in order
to become accustomed to the condition in which he will live in his next

body.

TEXT 32

Saarariea =| AarAgTATT |
yi afta wT TAAT URRII

ucur nisedhitas tams te
vaivasvata-purahsarah

ke yityarn pratiseddharo
dharma-rdjasya sésanam
