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.
There are varieties of living entities, bodies. As Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura therefore says:
- karma-kāṇḍa jñāna-kāṇḍa, sakhale viṣera bhāṇḍa
- amṛta boliyā jebā khāya
- nānā joni brahman kore, kadarya bhakṣana kore
- tāra janma adhahpāte jāya
- (Śrī Prema Bhakti-candrikā 8.8)
Nānā joni brahman kore. We are wandering in different species of life. There are cockroaches in the commode, they are also thinking, "I am enjoying." A tree is standing for seven thousands of years, and he's also thinking, "I am enjoying life." So this is going on.