The living entity . . . just like we, on this Jeep car, we can move from here and there. Somebody has given me the car and for movement. Similarly, we are getting a yantra, a moving instrument, this body, with senses, different bodies. So I'm seated there and . . . but the movement is not in my direction. That is by nature's own way. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. In another place it is confirmed:
- prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
- guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
- ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
- kartāham iti manyate
- (BG 3.27)
This is our foolishness. So long we are under the clutches of māyā, it is just like pulling by the ear, "Come here, sit down," like that. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. But the illusory māyā, by the influence of illusory māyā, the living entity thinks that, "I am doing this, I am doing that."
Everything is controlled. The ultimate controller is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati, bhrāmayan (BG 18.61), bhrāmayan, the passive. He is causing to move or wander, sarva-bhūtāni, all living entities under different condition of the body. So how much foolish we are that we are getting a particular type of body, and the sukha-duḥkha, happiness and distress, is already fixed up. That is called destiny. As soon as I get a particular type of body, my happiness and sufferings are all destined. This is our position.
So we are trying to make the situation improved because, after all, as soon as you get this material body, it is suffering. There is no question of happiness. But by the illusory energy, by illusion we are thinking we are enjoying. That is called illusion, māyā. Just like the same example: a hog is eating stool, but he is thinking he is enjoying. This is called prakṣepātmikā-śakti. Not only hog; even in human society, somebody eats the most abominable, most rotten fish, still, he's thinking he's enjoying. We have seen it. Unless he thinks like that, how . . . if he thinks that, "This is most rotten thing," then he cannot live. The māyā must make him forget that he is eating the most rotten thing. He'll think, "It is very nice." Māyayāpahṛta-jñāna. So this is the consequence of all forgetfulness.