Text 10]
Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa Meets Jaḍa Bharata
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TRANSLATION
Fatness, thinness, bodily and mental distress, thirst, hunger, fear, disagreement, desires for material happiness, old age, sleep, attachment for material possessions, anger, lamentation, illusion and identification of the body with the self are all transformations of the material covering of the spirit soul. A person absorbed in the material bodily conception is affected by these things, but I am free from all bodily conceptions. Consequently I am neither fat nor skinny nor anything else you have mentioned.
PURPORT
Śrīla Narottama dāsa Thākura has sung:  deha-smṛti nāhi yāra, sam-sāra-bandhana kāhāṅ tāra.  One who is spiritually advanced has no connection with the body or with the bodily actions and reactions. When one comes to understand that he is not the body and therefore is neither fat nor skinny, one attains the topmost form of spiritual realization. When one is not spiritually realized, the bodily conception entangles one in the material world. At the present moment all human society is laboring under the bodily conception; therefore in the  śāstras  people in this age are referred to as  dvipada-paśu , two-legged animals. No one can be happy in a civilization conducted by such animals. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to raise fallen human society to the status of spiritual understanding. It is not possible for everyone to become immediately self-realized like Jaḍa Bharata. However, as stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (1.2.18):  naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu nityam bhāgavata-sevayā.  By spreading the  Bhāgavata  principles, we can raise human society to the platform of perfection. When one is not affected by the bodily conceptions, one can advance to the Lord's devotional service.
naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu nityam bhāgavata-sevayā bhāgavaty uttamaśloke bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭikī
The more we advance our freedom from the bodily conception, the more we are fixed in devotional service, and the more we are happy and