Text 11] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone 17

PURPORT

Although material nature is conducted by the three qualities—sattva-
guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna—nature is not independent. As the

Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (9.10):

mayddhyaksena prakrtih
stiiyate sa-caracaram

hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate

“This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti,
and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this
manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.” The different
changes in the material world take place as actions and reactions of the
three gunas, but above the three gunas is their director, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. In the various types of bodies given to the living
entities by material nature (yantrariidhani mayaya), either sattva-guna,
rajo-guna or tamo-guna is prominent. The body is produced by material
nature according to the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Therefore it is said here, yada sisrksuh pura dtmanah parah, indicating
that the body is certainly created by the Lord. Karman4 daiva-netrena:
according to the karma of the living entity, a body is prepared under the
Supreme Lord’s supervision. Whether the body is of sattva-guna, rajo-
guna or tamo-guna, everything is done by the direction of the Supreme
Lord through the agency of the external energy (prthak sva-mayayd). In
this way, in different types of bodies, the Lord (iSvara) gives directions
as Paramatma, and again, to destroy the body, He employs the tamo-
guna. This is the way the living entities receive different types of bodies.

TEXT 11
aes we sate aT |
MUAH T AT RAGA NAAM

kdlam carantam sratisa asrayam
pradhaéna-pumbhyam nara-deva satya-krt
