Text 36] The Activities of Maharaja Priyavrata 65
we cannot see the gross body changing, chanting the holy name of the
Supreme Lord immediately changes the subtle body, and because the
subtle body changes, the living entity is immediately freed from material
bondage. After all, changes of the gross body are conducted by the subtle
body. After the destruction of the gross body. the subtle body takes the
living entity from his present gross body to another. In the subtle body,
the mind is predominant, and therefore if one’s mind is always absorbed
in remembering the activities or the lotus feet of the Lord, he is to be un-
derstood to have already changed his present body and become purified.
Therefore it is irrefutable that a canddla, or any fallen or lowborn
person, can become a brdhmana simply by the method of bona fide
initiation.
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Rrevttationiraafiareard wera oTeAPE SATE 124
sa evam aparimita-bala-parakrama ekada tu devarsi-
carandnusayananu-patita-guna-visarga-samsargenanirurtam
ivdtmanam nanyamana atma-nirveda idam aha.
sah—he (Maharaja Priyavrata): evam—thus: aparimita—un-
paralleled; bala—strength; parakramah—whose influence: ekadé—
once upon a time; tu—then; deva-rsi—of the great saint Narada:
carana-anusayana —surrendering unto the lotus feet: anw—thereafter:
patita—fallen down; guna-visarga—with material affairs (created by
the three material modes of nature); samsargena—by connection:
anirvrtam—not satisfied: iva—like: a&tmanam—himself:
manyamanah—thinking like that; dtma—self: nirvedah—possessing
renunciation; idam—this; Gha—said.
TRANSLATION
While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and in-

fluence, Maharaja Priyavrata once began to consider that although
he had fully surrendered to the great saint Narada and was actually
