Text 46] Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons 109
conducting the activities of the body is different from the body
and living force.
PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead distinctly says in Bhagavad-gita
(15.15), sarvasya caéham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnadnam
apohanam ca: “I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come
remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.” Although the atmd, or
soul, is present in every material body (dehino ’smin yatha dehe), he is
not actually the chief person acting through the senses, mind and so on.
The soul can merely act in cooperation with the Supersoul because it is
the Supersoul who gives him directions to act or not to act (mattah smrtir
jfiaénam apohanam ca). One cannot act without His sanction, for the
Supersoul is upadrasta and anumanta, the witness and sanctioner. One
who studies carefully, under the direction of a bona fide spiritual master,
can understand the real knowledge that the Supreme Personality of God-
head is actually the conductor of all the activities of the individual soul,
and the controller of their results as well. Although the individual soul
possesses the indriyas, or senses, he is not actually the proprietor, for the
proprietor is the Supersoul. Consequently the Supersoul is called
Hrsikesa, and the individual soul is advised by the direction of the
Supersoul to surrender to Him and thus be happy (sarva-dharman
parityajya mam ekam Saranam vraja). Thus he can become immortal
and be transferred to the spiritual kingdom, where he will achieve the
highest success of an eternal, blissful life of knowledge. In conclusion,
the individual soul is different from the body, senses, living force and
the airs within the body, and above him is the Supersoul, who gives the
individual soul all facilities. The individual soul who renders everything
to the Supersoul lives very happily within the body.

TEXT 46
qarrrrifogr Fas Ay: |
waa THETA ST AAT VAI
bhiitendriya-mano-lingan
dehan uccavacan vibhuh
