SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text ll) The Supreme Lonl Is Equal to Everyone 17PURPORTAlthough material nature is conducted by the three qualities -sattvagur:m,rajo-gur:m and tanw-gur:m-nature is not independent. As theLord says in Bhagavad-gitd (9.10):mayiidhyak$er:m prakrtiltsilyate sa-caracaramhetuniinena kaunteyajagad viparivartate"This material nature is working under My direction, 0 son of Kunti,and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule thismanifestation is created and annihilated again and again." The differentchanges in the material world take place as actions and reactions of thethree gur:ms, but above the three gur:ms is their director, the SupremePersonality of Godhead. In the various types of bodies given to the livingentities by material nature (yantrarW;lhiini mayaya), either sattva-gur:m,rajo-gur:m or tanw-gur:m is prominent. The body is produced by materialnature according to the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Therefore it is said here, yada sisrk$ult pura atmanalt paralt, indicatingthat the body is certainly created by the Lord. Karma1Jii daiva-netrer:m:according to the karma of the living entity, a body is prepared under theSupreme Lord's supervision. Whether the body is of sattva-gur:m, rajogur:mor tanw-gur:m, everything is done by the direction of the SupremeLord through the agency of the external energy {prthak sva-mayaya). Inthis way, in different types of bodies, the Lord (iSvara) gives directionsas Paramatma, and again, to destroy the body, He employs the tanwgur:m.This is the way the living entities receive different types of bodies.TEXT llm ro anPi '"l(j trfffl: II IIkdlam carantarh srjatiSa asrayarhpradhiina-pumbhyarh nara-deva satya-krt