Bhagavad Gita 18.61
ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति । भ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारूढानि मायया ॥
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṃ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati / bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
Translation
The Lord dwells in the heart-region of all beings, Arjuna, turning them by maya, mounted as if on a machine.
Reflection
What changes if you assume the operator is already seated inside, not somewhere distant?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
Cosmological frame for the surrender that is coming. Ishvara, the Lord, is not somewhere else. He is in the hridaya-desha of every being, the heart-region. From there he bhramayan, turns them, as a yantra-arudha, on a machine, by his maya. The image is striking. Every being is a vehicle in motion, and the operator is seated at the controls within. The independent ego that imagines itself author is mistaking the dashboard for the driver. The verse prepares the next instruction, take refuge in him, because he is already inside and already in charge. The surrender is acknowledging what is already true, not adding a new arrangement.