214 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 9
TRANSLATION

O Lord, O supreme eternal, by expanding Your plenary portion
You have created the subtle bodies of the living entities through
the agency of Your external energy, which is agitated by time.
Thus the mind entraps the living entity in unlimited varieties of
desires to be fulfilled by the Vedic directions of karma-kanda
[fruitive activity] and the sixteen elements. Who can get free from
this entanglement unless he takes shelter at Your lotus feet?

PURPORT

If the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present in
everything, where is the question of being liberated from material en-
cagement to spiritual, blissful life? Indeed, it is a fact that Krsna is the
source of everything, as we understand from Krsna Himself in
Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah). All the activities in both the
spiritual and material world are certainly conducted by the orders of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead through the agency of either the ma-
terial or spiritual nature. As further confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (9.10),
mayadhyaksena prakrtih sityate sacardcaram: without the direction of
the Supreme Lord, material nature cannot do anything; it cannot act in-
dependently. Therefore, in the beginning the living entity wanted to en-
joy the material energy, and to give the living entity all facility, Krsna,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, created this material world and
gave the living entity the facility to concoct different ideas and plans
through the mind. These facilities offered by the Lord to the living entity
constitute the sixteen kinds of perverted support in terms of the
knowledge-gathering senses, the working senses, the mind and the five
material elements. The wheel of repeated birth and death is created by
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but to direct the bewildered living
entity in progress toward liberation according to varied stages of ad-
vancement, different directions are given in the Vedas (chandomayam).
If one wants to be elevated to the higher planetary systems, he may
follow the Vedic directions. As the Lord states in Bhagavad-gita (9.25):

yanti deva-vrata devan
pitfn yanti pitr-vratah
