Srimad Bhagavatam — Dashama Skandha, Shloka 20
The Prayers of the Personified Vedas (Śruti-stuti) and the Indescribable Absolute
स्वकृतपुरेष्वमीष्वबहिरन्तरसंवरणं तव पुरुषं वदन्त्यखिलशक्तिधृतोंऽशकृतम् । इति नृगतिं विविच्य कवयो निगमावपनं भवत उपासतेऽङ्घ्रिमभवं भुवि विश्वसिता: ॥ २० ॥
sva-kṛta-pureṣv amīṣv abahir-antara-saṁvaraṇaṁ tava puruṣaṁ vadanty akhila-śakti-dhṛto ’ṁśa-kṛtam iti nṛ-gatiṁ vivicya kavayo nigamāvapanaṁ bhavata upāsate ’ṅghrim abhavam bhuvi viśvasitāḥ
个体灵魂虽居于由自身业力所造的诸身之城，实则不为粗或细的物质所覆；因为吠陀宣说：它是你——具足一切能量者——的分有。洞察此一生命地位后，博学圣贤满怀信心礼敬你的莲足；世间一切吠陀祭祀皆奉献于彼，彼亦是解脱之源。
Not only does the Supreme Lord remain totally uncontaminated when He resides within the material bodies of the conditioned souls, but even the infinitesimal jīva souls are never directly touched by the coverings of ignorance and lust they acquire while passing through repeated cycles of birth and death. Thus the Taittirīya Upaniṣad (3.10.5) proclaims, sa yaś cāyaṁ puruṣe yaś cāsāv āditye sa ekaḥ: “The soul of the embodied living being is one with Him who stands within the sun.” Similarly, the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (6.8.7) teaches, tat tvam asi: “You are nondifferent from that Supreme Truth.”
FAQs
It describes the Lord as the indwelling Puruṣa who pervades and regulates from within and without, present in the karmically formed “city” of the body as an expansion, while still sustaining all potencies.
Because they recognize His feet as the ultimate refuge and the source of Vedic revelation, and as the means to become “abhava”—freed from repeated birth—thereby revealing the true goal of human life.
By remembering the body is a temporary karmic “city,” cultivating discrimination about life’s real goal, and practicing steady devotion—especially worship and remembrance of the Lord’s lotus feet—as the path to inner freedom.