86 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 13

way he described the symptoms of a paramahamsa. A person who has at-
tained the paramahamsa stage knows very well the distinction between
matter and spirit. He is not at all interested in gratifying the material
senses, for he is always deriving pleasure from devotional service to the
Lord. He is not very anxious to protect his material body. Being satisfied
with whatever he attains by the grace of the Lord, he is completely inde-
pendent of material happiness and distress, and thus he is transcendental
to all regulative principles. Sometimes he accepts severe austerities, and
sometimes he accepts material opulence. His only concern is to satisfy
Krsna, and for that purpose he can do anything and everything, without
reference to the regulative principles. He is never to be equated with ma-
terialistic men, nor is he subject to the judgments of such men.

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Sri-nadrada uvdca
kalpas tv evari parivrajya
deha-matravasesitah
gramaika-ratra-vidhina
nirapeksas caren mahim

éri-na@radah uvaca—Sri Narada Muni said; kalpah—a person who is
competent to undergo the austerities of sannydsa, the renounced order of
life, or to prosecute studies in transcendental knowledge; tu—but;
evam—in this way (as described previously); parivrayya—fully under-
standing his spiritual identity and thus traveling from one place to
another; deha-matra—keeping only the body; avasesitah—at last;
grama—in a village; eka—one only; ratra—of passing a night;
vidhina—in the process; nirapeksah—without dependence on any ma-
terial thing; caret—should move from one place to another; mahim—on
the earth.
