Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.31

Soul Resides Within the Heart, Everything Belongs to Krishna Alone

📅 May 30, 1976 📍 Honolulu ⏱ 28 min
Everything belongs to Krishna alone; the devotee's duty is to return all of God's property to its rightful Owner.
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Pradyumna: [leads devotees in chanting] vikarṣato 'ntar hṛdayād dāsī-patim ajāmilam yama-preṣyān viṣṇudūtā vārayām āsur ojasā [SB 6.1.31] "vikarṣataḥ—snatching; antaḥ hṛdayāt—from within the heart; dāsī-patim—the husband of the prostitute; ajāmilam—Ajāmila; yama-preṣyān..." [break] [01:09] Translation: "The order carriers of Yamarāja were snatching the soul from the core of the heart of Ajāmila, the husband of the prostitute. But with resounding voices the messengers of Lord Viṣṇu, the Viṣṇudūtas, forbade them to do so." Prabhupāda: vikarṣato 'ntar hṛdayād dāsī-patim ajāmilam yama-preṣyān viṣṇudūtā vārayām āsur ojasā So the Yamadūta was dragging Ajāmila—not this body, but the soul. Body will stay there, but the soul will be... Now, wherefrom?

Vikarṣato antar hṛdayād. From the core of the heart. Now, from the śāstra you can understand where the soul is. Soul is not in the brain or not in the here, there.

No. Therefore when the soul is taken away, goes away from the heart, we say "heart failure." Heart failure means the soul has gone. The soul lives in the heart. This is proof from the śāstra.

Not only the soul, but the Supersoul also is there. Supersoul is God, Kṛṣṇa, and the individual soul, they're living together. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe [Bg 18.61]. Īśvara, the Supreme Lord, He's also there, very minute form, aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.20(1)]. The dimension of the soul is also mentioned in the śāstra: one ten-thousandth part of the tip of a hair. keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca jīvaḥ bhāgo sa vijñeyaḥ sa cānantyāya kalpate [Cc Madhya 19.140] Very minute. So just see that minute portion of God is so powerful.

Hah? Just like potassium cyanide. Minute quantity, if you take one grain, immediately you'll die. Immediately you die.

Similarly, if some ordinary material thing is so powerful, just imagine the spirit soul, how much powerful he is. And they have no machine to find out. How they will find out? One ten-thousandth part of the hair, we cannot see—the tip of the hair is so small—and divided into ten-thousandth part.

That one part is the dimension of the soul. Everything is there in the śāstra, Upaniṣads. Keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca jīvaḥ bhāgo sa vijñeyaḥ [Cc Madhya 19.140]. And...

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