Text 83] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Prasada to the Lord 39
of the feet; udi’—being blown; l4ge—touches; upara—upward; bhite—the ceil-
ing.
TRANSLATION

“Raghava Pandita then said, ‘People are always coming and going through

that door. The dust from their feet blows up and touches the ceiling.
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PB-CA ACR, TH BHAA Coal vo 1
sei bhite hata diya phala parasila
krsna-yogya nahe, phala apavitra haila
SYNONYMS

sei bhite—on that ceiling; hata diya—touching your hand; phala—the fruit;
parasila—touched; krsna-yogya nahe—is not fit to be offered to Krsna; phala—
the fruit; apavitra haila —has become contaminated.

TRANSLATION

“After touching the ceiling above the door, you have touched the
coconuts. Now they are no longer fit to be offered to Krsna because they are
contaminated.’

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura states that Raghava Pandita was not
simply a crazy fellow suffering from some cleansing phobia. He did not belong to
the mundane world. In lower consciousness, accepting something to be spiritual
when it is actually material is called bhauma-ijya-dhih. Raghava Pandita was an
eternal servant of Krsna, and everything he saw was related to the service of the
Lord. He was always absorbed in the transcendental thought of how he could al-
ways serve Krsna with everything. Sometimes neophytes, devotees on the lower
platform, try to imitate Raghava Pandita on the platform of material purity and im-
purity. Such imitation will not help anyone. As explained in Caitanya-caritamrta,
(Antya-lila 4.174): bhadraébhadra-vastu-jiana nahika ‘prakrte’. On the transcen-
dental platform there is no higher or lower, pure or impure. On the material plat-
form, distinction is made between good and bad, but on the spiritual platform
everything is of the same quality.

‘dvaite’ bhadrabhadra-jfhana, saba——‘manodharma’
‘ei bhala, ei manda’, —ei saba ‘bhrama’
