PLATE FOUR

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential
places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and
demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides
with the living beings as Paramatma, the Supersoul. The Supersoul in
every body gives intelligence to the individual soul according to his
capacity for understanding. Therefore, the Supersoul is the chief within
the body. The Supersoul is manifested to the individual soul according to
the individual’s comparative development, knowledge, austerity,
penance and so on. The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart,
and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on
a machine, made of the material energy. One who sees the Supersoul,
Lord Visnu, accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who
understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, ac-
tually sees, and he therefore gradually advances toward spiritual perfec-
tion. (pp. 185-188)
