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The Cleansing of the Gundicā Temple
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SYNONYMS
hena —thus;  tomāra —Your;  saṅge —in association;  mora —My;  ekatre —together;  bhojana —eating;  nā jāni —I do not know;  tomāra saṅge —by Your association;  kaiche —how;  haya mana —My mind will turn.
TRANSLATION
Nityānanda Prabhu continued: “You are such a monist! And now I am eating beside You. I do not know how My mind will be affected in this way.”
PURPORT
Saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ  (Bg. 2.62). One develops his consciousness according to society and association. As Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu admits, a devotee should be very careful when associating with those who are not devotees. When asked by a householder devotee what the behavior of a devotee should be, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately replied:
asat-saṅga-tyāga , — ei vaiṣṇava-ācāra  ‘ stri-saṅgi’  — eka asādhu , ‘ kṛṣṇābhakta’ āra
(CC. Мадһуа 22,87)
A Vaişņava, a devotee, should simply discard intimate association with non-devotees. In his  Upadeśāmṛta , Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described the symptoms of intimate relationships in this way:
dadāti pratigṛhṇāti 
    guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati 
    bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva 
    ṣaḍ-vidhaṁ prīti-lakṣanam
The words  bhuṅkte   bhojayate  indicate that one should eat with devotees. One should carefully avoid eating food offered by nondevotees. Indeed, a devotee should be very strict in not accepting food from a nondevotee, especially food prepared in restaurants or hotels or on airplanes. Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu’s reference in this connection is meant to emphasize that one should avoid eating with Māyāvādīs and covert Māyāvādīs like the  sahijiyā  Vaiṣṇavas, who are materially affected.
TEXT 19᠖
এইমত হুইজনে করে বলাবলি।।
ব্যাজ-স্তুতি করে ছুঁ ছেঁ, মেন গালাগালি ॥ ১৯৬ ॥ 
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