Text 31] Lord Rsabhadeva’s Teachings 211
“O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and dis-
tress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and
disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense per-
ception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without
being disturbed.”

As far as Rsabhadeva is concerned, it has already been explained:
idam sarirarn mama durvibhavyam. He did not at all possess a material
body; and therefore He was tolerant of all the trouble offered to Him by
the bad elements in society. Consequently He could tolerate people's
throwing stool and dust upon Him and beating Him. His body was tran-
scendental and consequently did not at all suffer pain. He was always
situated in His spiritual bliss. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.61):

isvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati
bhramayan sarva-bhiitani
yantraridhani mayaya
“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart. O Arjuna. and is
directing the wanderings of all living entities. who are seated as on a
machine, made of the material energy.”

Since the Lord is situated in everyone's heart, He is in the heart of
hogs and dogs also. If hogs and dogs in their material bodies live in filthy
places, one should not think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead in
His Paramatma feature also lives in a filthy place. Although Lord
Rsabhadeva was maltreated by the bad elements of the world. He was not
at all affected. Therefore it is stated here. sva-mahima-avasthanena:
"He was situated in His own glory.” He was never saddened due to
being insulted in the many ways described above.

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