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Lord Krishna as the Supersoul in the heart of every living en ty is the

ul mate witness to all our thoughts and deeds. Without this under-
standing of God’s universal presence in every atom of crea on and in
the heart of all living beings, we entertain the illusion that man is inde-
pendent in the material crea on without being accountable to a higher
authority that witnesses his ac ons. This gross ignorance of reality is
the cause of bewilderment and suffering. Lord Krishna states:
upadraṣṭānumantā ca / bhartā bhoktā maheśvaraḥ
paramātme cāpy ukto / dehe ’smin puruṣaḥ paraḥ

Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the
Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and per-
mi er, and who is known as the Supersoul. (Bg 13.23)

Bhak vedanta Swami Prabhupada explains:
The fact is that every individual living en ty is eternally part and parcel
of the Supreme Lord, and both of them are very in mately related as
friends. But the living en ty has the tendency to reject the sanc on of
the Supreme Lord and act independently in an a empt to dominate
nature, and because he has this tendency he is called the marginal en-
ergy of the Supreme Lord. The living en ty can be situated either in the
material energy or in the spiritual energy. As long as he is condi oned
by the material energy, the Supreme Lord, as his friend, the Supersoul,
stays with him just to get him to return to the spiritual energy. The
Lord is always eager to take him back to the spiritual energy, but due
to his minute independence the individual en ty is con nually re-
jec ng the associa on of spiritual light. This misuse of independence is
the cause of his material strife in the condi oned nature. The Lord,
therefore, is always giving instruc on from within and from without.
From without He gives instruc ons as stated in Bhagavad-gītā, and
from within He tries to convince the living en ty that his ac vi es in
the material field are not conducive to real happiness. “Just give it up
and turn your faith toward Me. Then you will be happy,” He says. Thus
the intelligent person who places his faith in the Paramātmā or the Su-
preme Personality of Godhead begins to advance toward a blissful
eternal life of knowledge. (Bg 13.23 – purport)

The Vedas instruct that all species of life were created by Krishna at
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