Text 5] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 83
PURPORT

Here it is made clear that the living being enters a material body that
is like a machine created by the five gross elements of material nature
(earth, water, fire, air and sky) and the three subtle elements (mind, in-
telligence and ego). As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, there are two sepa-
rate identities, called the inferior and superior natures, which both
belong to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. According to the results
of a living entity’s fruitive actions, he is forced to enter the material ele-
ments in different types of bodies.

This time the living entity was supposed to have been the son of
Maharaja Citraketu and Queen Krtadyuti because according to the laws
of nature he had entered a body made by the King and Queen. Actually,
however, he was not their son. The living entity is the son of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because he wants to enjoy this ma-
terial world, the Supreme Lord gives him a chance to enter various
bodies. The living entity has no true relationship with the material body
he gets from his material father and mother. He is part and parcel of the
Supreme Lord, but he is allowed to go through different bodies. The
body created by the so-called father and mother actually has nothing to
do with its so-called creators. Therefore the living entity flatly denied
that Maharaja Citraketu and his wife were his father and mother.

TEXT 5
Thasatedaas: |
aa og fe aaa wafea wae fea: 14 I
bandhu-jnaty-ari-madhyastha-
mitrodasina-vidvisah
sarva eva hi sarvesam
bhavanti kramaso mithah

bandhu—friends; jfnati—family members; ari—enemies; madhya-
stha—neutrals; mitra—well-wishers; uddsina—indifferent; vidvisah—
or envious persons; sarve—all; eva—indeed; hi—certainly; sarvesam—
of all; bhavanti—become; kramasah—gradually; mithah—of one
another.
