Text 139] Lord Caitanya’s Travels to the Holy Places 367

yanti deva-vrata devan
pitfn yanti pitr-vratah

bhatani yanti bhatejya
yanti mad-ydjino ‘pi mam

“Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those
who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who
worship ancestors go the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with
Me.”

Only when one regains his original spiritual body can one enter into the
spiritual kingdom. As far as the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord are concerned, it is
futile to attempt to imitate the Lord’s dances within the material world. One has
to attain a spiritual body like the gopis to enter into the pastimes of rdsa-lila. In the
nayam sukhdpo verse, the devotees are referred to as bhaktimat, that is, they are
fully engaged in devotional service and are devoid of material contamination.
Simply by artificially imitating Krsna’s rasa-lila dance or artificially thinking oneself
Krsna and dressing oneself up like a sakhi, one cannot enter into His rasa-lila
dance. Krsna's rasa-lila dance is completely spiritual. It has nothing to do with ma-
terial contamination; therefore no one can enter into the pastimes by artificial ma-
terial means. That is the instruction of this verse.

TEXT 138
cf etba aca a for afeata |
HlatarAe? cH TA-SAAA | Sev

purve bhattera mane eka chila abhimana
‘$ri-narayana’ hayena svayam-bhagavan

SYNONYMS
purve—before this; bhattera—of Vyenkata Bhatta; mane—in the mind; eka—
one; chila—there was; abhimana—an impression; sri-narayana—the form of the
Lord as Narayana; hayena—is; svayam—personally; bhagavan—the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Before this explanation was given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Vyenkata
Bhatta thought that Sri Narayana was the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TEXT 139

Sata Sora ACA AaAfa-SH] BA |
‘B)-caera’a Gea OS CAH SA | SOD Il
