Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 15.83

sei bhite hata diya phala parasila

krishna-yogya nahe, phala apavitra haila

SYNONYMS

sei bhite -- on that ceiling; hata diya -- touching your hand; phala -- the fruits; parasila -- touched; krishna-yogya nahe -- is not fit to be offered to Krishna; phala -- the fruits; apavitra haila -- has become contaminated.

TRANSLATION

"'After touching the ceiling above the door, you have touched the coconuts. Now they are no longer fit to be offered to Krishna because they are contaminated.'

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura states that Raghava Pandita was not simply a crazy fellow suffering from some cleansing phobia. He did not belong to the mundane world. In lower consciousness, accepting something to be spiritual when it is actually material is called bhauma ijya-dhih. Raghava Pandita was an eternal servant of Krishna, and everything he saw was related to the service of the Lord. He was always absorbed in the transcendental thought of how he could always serve Krishna with everything. Sometimes neophytes, devotees on the lower platform, try to imitate Raghava Pandita on the platform of material purity and impurity. Such imitation will not help anyone. As explained in the Caitanya-caritamrita (Antya-lila 4.174), bhadrabhadra-vastu-jnana nahika 'prakrite.' On the transcendental platform there is no higher or lower, pure or impure. On the material platform, distinction is made between good and bad, but on the spiritual platform everything is of the same quality.

'dvaite' bhadrabhadra-jnana, saba -- 'manodharma'

'ei bhala, ei manda', -- ei saba 'bhrama'

"In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations. Therefore, saying 'This is good and that is bad' is all a mistake." (Cc. Antya 4.176)

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