Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, in His form as the Supersoul, enters the material bodies of created beings—celestial beings, human beings, animals, and plants—activates the mind and the senses, and thus causes the embodied souls, conditioned by matter, to approach the three modes of material nature: goodness, passion, and ignorance, for the satisfaction of the senses.

The individual spiritual being, distinct from God, the master of the material body in which he resides as the soul, then uses his material senses, which have been activated by the Lord, to try to enjoy the sense objects composed of the three modes of nature.

When a living being sees something with his eyes, he must understand that his vision acts only secondarily, after that of the Supersoul. God Himself sees everything before it becomes visible to us. The same is true for all the senses.

Lord Krishna is the Master of all living beings, and the Supreme Master of all material bodies, for no one can achieve their goals without His permission. He alone bestows the fruits of all actions.

In truth, the real purpose of the sense organs—whether the mind, the eye, the tongue, the nose, the ear, and the skin for touch, or any other organ of perception and action—is to be placed exclusively in the service of God, in order to serve Him fully, and the resulting fruit must be offered to the Lord and to Him alone.

Unless one uses one's senses in this way, the conditioned soul cannot even hope to escape the terrible cycle of material existence and will suffer because of its selfishness and greed.

Without Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, the living being—celestial beings, human beings, animals, and plants—are nothing and can do nothing.

They cannot see, hear, smell, feel, or act without the active principle, which is none other than God Himself.

God, the Eternal Supreme, resides in the heart of all material bodies—celestial, human, animal, and plant—and thus keeps all these inert material bodies active. That is why all these moving and non-moving bodies are temples of God. He is the Supreme Teacher, the Supreme Guide, the Supreme Counselor, and the witness of all our actions.

The Lord alone directs the senses. Therefore, unless empowered by His energy, our senses cannot act, for it is God Himself who activates the mind and the senses. In other words, God alone sees, He alone acts, He alone hears, for He is the active principle and the Supreme Master.

In truth, no one should destroy any of these bodies, for that is to harm the individual spiritual soul that each of us is, and God, the Supreme Soul.