64 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 1

krpayda tava pdda-parkaja-
sthita-dhili-sadrsam vicintaya

“O son of Nanda Maharaja, I am Your eternal servant, yet somehow or
other | have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up
from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms of Your lotus
feet.”’ Lord Caitanya teaches us to come in touch with the dust of the
Lord’s lotus feet, for then there will undoubtedly be all success.

Because of the material body, every living entity in material existence
is always disturbed by sad-guna, six whips—hunger, thirst, lamentation,
illusion, invalidity and death. Furthermore, another sad-guna are the
mind and five sense organs. Not to speak of a sanctified devotee, even a
candéla, an outcaste, who is untouchable, is immediately freed from
material bondage if he utters the holy name of the Lord even once. Some-
times caste brahmanas argue that unless one changes his body he cannot
be accepted as a brahmana, for since the present body is obtained as a
result of past actions, one who has in the past acted as a brahmana takes
birth in a braéhmana family. Therefore, they contend, without such a
brahminical body, one cannot be accepted as a bradhmana. Herein it is
said, however, that even vidiira-vigata, a canddla—a fifth-class un-
touchable—is freed if he utters the holy name even once. Being freed
means that he immediately changes his body. Sanatana Gosvami confirms
this:

yatha kafcanatam yati
kamsyam rasa-vidhanatah

tatha diksa-vidhanena
dvijatvam jayate nrnam

When a person, even though a candala, is initiated by a pure devotee
into chanting the holy name of the Lord, his body changes as he follows
the instructions of the spiritual master. Although one cannot see how his
body has changed, we must accept, on the grounds of the authoritative
statements of the sdstras, that he changes his body. This is to be under-
stood without arguments. This verse clearly says. sa jahati bandham:
“He gives up his material bondage.” The body is a symbolic representa-
tion of material bondage according to one’s karma. Although sometimes
