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Rāmānanda Rāya Instructs Pradyumna Miśra
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"This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead. He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord cannot be influenced by the material qualities." ( Bhāg.  1.11.38) His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is unaffected by the influence of the three modes of material nature. Indeed, His devotees are also unpolluted by the influence of the external energy because they engage in the service of His Lordship. Even the very body of a devotee becomes spiritualized, just as an iron rod put into fire becomes as qualified as fire because it becomes red hot and will immediately burn anything it touches. Therefore the poet from Bengal committed a great offense by treating Lord Jagannātha's body and Lord Jagannātha, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as two different entities, material and spiritual, as if the Lord were an ordinary living being. The Lord is always the master of the material energy; therefore He is not doomed to be covered by the material energy like an ordinary living entity.
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দুই-ঠাঞি অপরাধে পাইবি দুর্গতি ! অতত্ত্বজ্ঞ ‘তত্ত্ব’ বর্ণে, তার এই রীতি ! ১২০ ॥
dui-ṭhāñi aparādhe pāibi durgati! atattva-jña ‘tattva’ varṇe, tāra ei rīti!
SYNONYMS
dui-ṭhāñi —unto both;  aparādhe —by offense;  pāibi —you will get;  durgati —hellish destination;  a-tattva-jña —one who has no knowledge of the Absolute Truth;  tattva varṇe —describes the Absolute Truth;  tāra —his;  ei —this;  rīti —course.
TRANSLATION
Svarūpa Dāmodara continued, "Because you have committed an offense to Lord Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, you will attain a hellish destination. You do not know how to describe the Absolute Truth, but nevertheless you have tried to do so. Therefore you must be condemned.
PURPORT
The  brāhmaṇa  poet from Bengal was an offender in the estimation of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, for although the poet had no knowledge of the Absolute Truth, he had nevertheless tried to describe it. The Bengali poet was an offender to both Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha. Because he had made a distinction between Lord Jagannātha's body and soul and because he had indi-