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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 1]
kṛpayā tava pāda-paṅkaja- sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaṁ vicintaya
“O son of Nanda Mahārāja, I am Your eternal servant, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms of Your lotus feet.” Lord Caitanya teaches us to come in touch with the dust of the Lord’s lotus feet, for then there will undoubtedly be all success.
Because of the material body, every living entity in material existence is always disturbed by  ṣaḍ-guṇa , six whips—hunger, thirst, lamentation, illusion, invalidity and death. Furthermore, another  ṣaḍ-guṇa  are the mind and five sense organs. Not to speak of a sanctified devotee, even a  caṇḍāla , an outcaste, who is untouchable, is immediately freed from material bondage if he utters the holy name of the Lord even once. Sometimes caste  brāhmaṇas  argue that unless one changes his body he cannot be accepted as a  brāhmaṇa , for since the present body is obtained as a result of past actions, one who has in the past acted as a  brāhmaṇa  takes birth in a  brāhmaṇa  family. Therefore, they contend, without such a brahminical body, one cannot be accepted as a  brāhmaṇa . Herein it is said, however, that even  vidūra-vigata , a  caṇḍāla —a fifth-class untouchable—is freed if he utters the holy name even once. Being freed means that he immediately changes his body. Sanātana Gosvāmī confirms this:
yathā kāñcanatāṁ yāti kāṁsyaṁ rasa-vidhānataḥ tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām
When a person, even though a  caṇḍāla , is initiated by a pure devotee into chanting the holy name of the Lord, his body changes as he follows the instructions of the spiritual master. Although one cannot see how his body has changed, we must accept, on the grounds of the authoritative statements of the  śāstras , that he changes his body. This is to be understood without arguments. This verse clearly says,  sa jahāti bandham : “He gives up his material bondage.” The body is a symbolic representation of material bondage according to one’s  karma . Although sometimes