108 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 7

sarvesam—of all; api—certainly; bhiitanam—living entities; harih—
the Lord, who mitigates all the miseries of the living entity; atma—the
original source of life; isvarah—the complete controller; priyah—the
dear; bhiitaih—by the separated energies, the five material elements;
mahadbhih—emanating from the total material energy, the mahat-
tattva; sva-krtaih—which are manifested by Himself; krtandm—cre-
ated; jiva-sarijnitah—who is also known as the living entity, since the
living entities are expansions of His marginal energy.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is the soul and the
Supersoul of all living entities. Every living entity is a manifesta-
tion of His energy in terms of the living soul and the material
body. Therefore the Lord is the most dear, and He is the supreme
controller.

PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is manifested by His different

energies—the material energy, the spiritual energy and the marginal en-
ergy. He is the original source of all living entities in the material world,
and He is situated in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. Although the liv-
ing entity is the cause of his various types of bodies, the body is given by
material nature according to the order of the Lord.

iSvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati

bhraémayan sarva-bhittani
yantraridhani 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.” (Bg. 18.61) The body is just
like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit
and move according to his desire. The Lord is the original cause of the
material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy.
The Supreme Lord is the dearmost object of all living entities. Prahlada
Maharaja therefore advised his class friends, the sons of the demons, to
take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead again.
