90 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16

conditional life in the material world, and therefore he is described as
prabhu (“the master’’). If he likes he can come to this material world,
and if he likes he can return home, back to Godhead. Because he wanted
to enjoy this material world, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gave
him a material body through the agency of the material energy. As the
Lord Himself says in Bhagavad-gita (18.61):

isvarah 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.” The Supreme Lord gives the liv-
ing entity a chance to enjoy in this material world as he desires, but He
openly expresses His own desire that the living entity give up all material
aspirations, fully surrender unto Him and return home, back to
Godhead.

The living entity is the smallest (siiksma). Jiva Gosvami says in this
connection that the living entity within the body is extremely difficult for
materialistic scientists to find, although we understand from authorities
that the living entity is within the body. The body is different from the
living entity.

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na hy asyasti priyah kascin
napriyah svah paro "pi va

ekah sarva-dhiyam drasta
kartfnam guna-dosayoh

na—not; hi—indeed; asya—to the living entity; asti—there is;
priyah—dear; kascit—someone; na—not; apriyah—not dear; svah—
own; parah—other; api—also; va—or; ekah—the one; sarva-
