Text 122] Ramananda Raya Instructs Pradyumna Misra 179

Personality of Godhead has an unlimited spiritual identity, never to be broken,
whereas the consciousness of the living entity is limited and fragmented. The liv-
ing entities are fragmental portions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead eter-
nally (mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhitah sanatanah). \t is not that they are
covered by the material energy in conditioned life but become one with the
Supreme Personality of Godhead when freed from the influence of material en-
ergy. Such an idea is offensive.

According to the considerations of Mayavadi fools, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the material world. A
Vaisnava, however, knows perfectly well that for Krsna, Lord Jagannatha or Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu—unlike ordinary human beings—there is no distinction
between the body and the soul. Even in the material world His Lordship retains His
spiritual identity; therefore Lord Krsna exhibited all opulences even in His child-
hood body. There is no distinction between the body and soul of Krsna; whether
He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical with His
body. Even though Krsna appears like an ordinary human being, He is never sub-
jected to the rules and regulations of the material world. He is svardt, or fully inde-
pendent. He can appear in the material world, but contrary to the offensive con-
clusion of the MayaVvda school, He has no material body. In this connection one
may again refer to the above-mentioned verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam
(1.11.38):

etad isanam isasya
prakrti-stho ‘pi tad-gunaih

na yujyate sadatma-sthair
yatha buddhis tad-asraya

The Supreme Person has an eternal spiritual body. If one tries to distinguish be-
tween the body and soul of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he commits a
great offense.

TEXT 122
Baca ale wy cre-cafe-cow |
aa, CHS,—fow tr, THSe Fase | 522 I

isvarera nahi kabhu deha-dehi-bheda
svartipa, deha, —cid-ananda, nahika vibheda

SYNONYMS

isvarera—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nahi—there is not; kabhu—
at any time; deha-dehi-bheda—distinction between the body and soul;
