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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 13]
way he described the symptoms of a  paramahaṁsa . A person who has attained the  paramahaṁsa  stage knows very well the distinction between matter and spirit. He is not at all interested in gratifying the material senses, for he is always deriving pleasure from devotional service to the Lord. He is not very anxious to protect his material body. Being satisfied with whatever he attains by the grace of the Lord, he is completely independent of material happiness and distress, and thus he is transcendental to all regulative principles. Sometimes he accepts severe austerities, and sometimes he accepts material opulence. His only concern is to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, and for that purpose he can do anything and everything, without reference to the regulative principles. He is never to be equated with materialistic men, nor is he subject to the judgments of such men.
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श्रीनारद उवाच
कल्पस्त्वेवं परिव्रज्य देहमात्रावशेषितः । 
    ग्रामैकरात्रविधिना निरपेक्षश्चरेन्महीम् ॥ १ ॥
śrī-nārada uvāca 
    kalpas tv evaṁ parivrajya 
    deha-mātrāvaśeṣitaḥ 
    grāmaika-rātra-vidhinā 
    nirapekṣaś caren mahīm
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada Muni said;  kalpaḥ —a person who is competent to undergo the austerities of  sannyāsa , the renounced order of life, or to prosecute studies in transcendental knowledge;  tu —but;  evam —in this way (as described previously);  parivrajya —fully understanding his spiritual identity and thus traveling from one place to another;  deha-mātra —keeping only the body;  avaśeṣitaḥ —at last;  grāma —in a village;  eka —one only;  rātra —of passing a night;  vidhinā —in the process;  nirapekṣaḥ —without dependence on any material thing;  caret —should move from one place to another;  mahīm —on the earth.