The individual soul has value and brilliance only when united with Krishna, separated from whom it becomes worthless.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.48 — July 30, 1975, Dallas 750730SB-DALLAS [24:10 Minutes] SB-06.01.48_750730SB-DALLAS Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] manasaiva pure devaḥ pūrva-rūpaṁ vipaśyati anumīmāṁsati apūrvaṁ manasā bhagavān ajaḥ [SB 6.1.48] [break] [00:49] "The omnipotent Yamarāja is as good as Lord Brahmā because although he is situated in his own abode or being situated in everyone's heart like Paramātmā, by his mind he observes the past activities of a living entity, and according to that, by the same mind he understands how the living entity will act in his future life." Prabhupāda: manasaiva pure devaḥ pūrva-rūpaṁ vipaśyati anumīmāṁsati apūrvaṁ manasā bhagavān ajaḥ [SB 6.1.48] So now the Yamadūtas are describing about Yamarāja, who is as good as Brahmā. He is entrusted with the majestical power. To Yamarāja, not all the living beings are taken to, neither the animals, only the human being and those who are criminals or sinful. Not all of them.
First of all there are living entities, 8,400,000 forms, or species. So not all of them sinful and subjected to be brought for justice before Yamarāja. Just like magistrate, criminal magistrate. He is...
In every city the district magistrate, not all the people are brought there, only the criminals. So he is so powerful that through his mind he can see the past and the future, tri-kāla-jñā, by mind. And because he is so powerful, he is addressed here as Bhagavān. I have several times explained, Bhagavān means the most powerful, full of opulences.
So those who are in charge of departmental affairs within this universal kingdom, they are also sometimes addressed as Bhagavān. And Aja, Aja is Brahmā. Aja means who does not take birth. So Brahmā also did not take birth like ordinary human being.
He sprouted like the lotus flower from the abdomen of Mahā Viṣṇu, er, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Therefore he is called Aja or Svāyambhu, Svāyambhu: "personally born, not through the womb of the mother." Brahmā was not born through the womb of mother; therefore he is called bhagavān ajaḥ. So the mind of Yamarāja, he can see. In the previous verse it is said, vartamanaḥ anyayoḥ kālaḥ guṇābhijñāpako yathā [SB 6.1.47]. Within this material world we are passing through many evolutionary process and getting different types of body according to the guṇa, quality, modes of nature we are associating.
So Yamaraja can see. When a living being, criminal, sinful living being is brought before him, he can understand through his mind. Just see that everyone's mind is not of the same category. There are difference of mind also, according to the position.
That we have got experience. A high-court judge's mind and ordinary person's mind—far different. The judges can immediately understand what is the position. So this is also God's gift. Different people have got different power of the mind.