Text 279] Lord Caitanya Meets Raghunatha dasa Gosvami 329

TEXT 278

“faans wa Neca afer Sa Ja |
afer HH CRC ACS SOWA HA 1 V9

“visayira anna khaile malina haya mana
malina mana haile nahe krsnera smarana

SYNONYMS

visayira—of materialistic persons; anna—food; khdile—if one eats; malina—
contaminated; haya mana—the mind becomes; malina—contaminated; mana
haile—when the mind becomes; nahe—is not; krsnera—of Lord Krsna;
smarana—remembrance.
TRANSLATION

‘“‘When one eats food offered by a materialistic man, one’s mind becomes
contaminated, and when the mind is contaminated, one is unable to think of
Krsna properly.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura suggests that people who are mate-
rialistically inclined and sahajiyas, or so-called Vaisnavas who take everything very
casually, are both visayi, materialists. Eating food offered by them causes con-
tamination, and as a result of such contamination, even a serious devotee be-
comes like a materialistic man. There are six kinds of association—giving charity,
accepting charity, accepting food, offering food, talking confidentially and inquir-
ing confidentially. One should very carefully avoid associating with both the saha-
jiyas, who are sometimes known as Vaisnavas, and the non-Vaisnavas, or
avaisnavas. Their association changes the transcendental devotional service of
Lord Krsna into sense gratification, and when sense gratification enters the mind
of a devotee, he is contaminated. The materialistic person who aspires after sense
gratification cannot properly think of Krsna.

TEXT 279
feanla wa ax ‘ata fara |
WS, COiSi—| Sta aera SI TA 29d tt

visayira anna haya ‘rajasa’ nimantrana
data, bhokta——dunhdara malina haya mana

SYNONYMS

visayira—offered by materialistic men; anna—food; haya—is; rajasa—in the
mode of passion; nimantrana—invitation; déta—the person who offers; bhokta—
