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The Activities of Mahārāja Priyavrata
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we cannot see the gross body changing, chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord immediately changes the subtle body, and because the subtle body changes, the living entity is immediately freed from material bondage. After all, changes of the gross body are conducted by the subtle body. After the destruction of the gross body, the subtle body takes the living entity from his present gross body to another. In the subtle body, the mind is predominant, and therefore if one's mind is always absorbed in remembering the activities or the lotus feet of the Lord, he is to be understood to have already changed his present body and become purified. Therefore it is irrefutable that a  caṇḍāla , or any fallen or lowborn person, can become a  brāhmaṇa  simply by the method of bona fide initiation.
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स एवमपरिमितवलपराक्रम एकदा तु देवर्षिचरणानुशयनानुपतितगुण- विसर्गसंसर्गेणानिर्वृतमिवात्मानं मन्यमान आत्मनिर्वेद इदमाह ॥३६॥
sa evam aparimita-bala-parākrama ekadā tu devarṣi- caraṇānuśayanānu-patita-guṇa-visarga-saṁsargeṇānirvṛtam ivātmānam nanyamāna ātma-nirveda idam āha.
saḥ—he (Mahārāja Priyavrata); evam—thus; aparimita—un- paralleled; bala—strength; parākramaḥ—whose influence; ekadā— once upon a time; tu—then; deva-ṛṣi—of the great saint Nārada; caraṇa-anuśayana—surrendering unto the lotus feet; anu—thereafter; patita—fallen down; guṇa-visarga—with material affairs (created by the three material modes of nature); saṁsargeṇa—by connection; anirvṛtam—not satisfied; iva—like; ātmānam—himself; manyamānaḥ—thinking like that; ātma—self; nirvedaḥ—possessing renunciation; idam—this; āha—said.
TRANSLATION
While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and in- fluence, Mahārāja Priyavrata once began to consider that although he had fully surrendered to the great saint Nārada and was actually