Text 37] Ideal Family Life 185

TEXT 37

geava genta afangtigaan: |
Jd Hea SI Gey TEN Tat Il

purany anena srstani
nr-tiryag-rsi-devatah

Sete jivena riipena
puresu puruso hy asau

purdni—residential places or bodies; anena—by Him (the Supreme
Personality of Godhead); srstani—among those creations; nr—man;
tiryak—other than human beings (animals, birds, etc); rsi—saintly per-
sons; devatah—and demigods; sete—lies down; jivena—with the living
entities; ripena—in the form of Paramatma; puresu—within these resi-
dential places or bodies; purusah—the Supreme Lord; hi—indeed;
asau—He (the Personality of Godhead).

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residen-
tial 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 being as Paramatma. Thus He is known as
the purusavatara.

PURPORT
In Bhagavad-gita (18.61) it is said:

iSvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati

bhraémayan sarva-bhitani
yantrariidhani 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.” The living entity, who is part
and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exists on the mercy of
