290 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 6
TEXT 167
Blaate ca al Ace, CHS S AAG |
PY VHD, HS VT AAW Ul 9v9
sri-vigraha ye nad mane, sei ta’ pasandi
adrsya asprsya, sei haya yama-dandi
SYNONYMS

sri-vigraha—the form of the Lord; ye—anyone who; né—not; mane—accepts;
sei—he; ta’—indeed; pasandi—agnostic; adrsya—not to be seen; asprsya—un-
touchable; sei—he; haya—is; yama-dandi—subject to be punished by Yamardja.

TRANSLATION

“One who does not accept the transcendental form of the Lord is certainly
an agnostic. Such a person should be neither seen nor touched. Indeed, he is
subject to be punished by Yamaraja.

PURPORT

According to the Vedic instructions, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has
His eternal, transcendental form, which is always blissful and full of knowledge.
Impersonalists think that “material” refers to the forms within our experience and
that “spiritual” refers to an absence of form. However, one should know that
beyond this material nature is another nature, which is spiritual. Just as there are
material forms in this material world, there are spiritual forms in the spiritual world.
This is confirmed by all Vedic literature. The spiritual forms in the transcendental
world have nothing to do with the negative conception of formlessness. The con-
clusion is that a person is an agnostic when he does not agree to worship the tran-
scendental form of the Lord.

Actually, at the present moment all systems of religion deny the worship of the
form of the Lord due to ignorance of His transcendental form. The first-class ma-
terialists (the Mayavadis) imagine five specific forms of the Lord, but when they
try to equate the worship of such imaginary forms with bhakti, they are im-
mediately condemned. Lord Sri Krsna confirms this in Bhagavad-gitd (7.15), where
He says, na mam duskrtino muadhadh prapadyante naradhamah. Bereft of real
knowledge due to agnosticism, the Mayavadi philosophers should not even be
seen by the devotees of the Lord, nor touched, because those philosophers are
liable to be punished by Yamardaja, the superintendent demigod who judges the
activities of sinful men. The Mayavadi agnostics wander within this universe in dif-
ferent species of life due to theft nondevotional activities. Such living entities are
subjected to the punishments of Yamaraja. Only the devotees, who are always
engaged in the service of the Lord, are exempt from the jurisdiction of Yamardja.
