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TEXT 121
ara eka kariyacha parama 'pramada'!
deha-dehi-bheda isvare kaile 'aparadha'!
SYNONYMS
ara ekaanother one; kariyachayou have done; paramathe supreme; pramadaillusion; deha-dehi-bhedathe distinction between the body and soul; isvarein His Lordship; kaileyou have done; aparadhaan offense.
TRANSLATION
"You are in complete illusion, for you have distinguished between the body and soul of His Lordship [Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu]. That is a great offense.
PURPORT
When one differentiates between the body and soul of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he immediately becomes an offender. Because the living entities in the material world are generally covered by material bodies, the body and soul of an ordinary human being cannot be identical. The Supreme Lord bestows the fruits of one's activities, for He is the Lord of the results of fruitive action. He is also the cause of all causes, and He is the master of the material energy. Therefore He is supreme. An ordinary living being, however, in his material condition, enjoys the results of his own fruitive activities and therefore falls under their influence. Even in the liberated stage of brahma-bhuta identification, he engages in rendering service to His Lordship. Thus there are distinctions between an ordinary human being and the Supreme Lord. Karmis and jnanis who ignore these distinctions are offenders against the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
An ordinary human being is prone to be subjugated by the material energy, whereas His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead-Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Krsna or Lord Jagannatha-is always the master of the material energy and is therefore never subject to its influence. His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an unlimited spiritual identity, never to be broken, whereas the consciousness of the living entity is limited and fragmented. The living entities are fragmental portions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead eternally (mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah). It is not that they are covered by the material energy in conditioned life but become one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead when freed from the influence of material energy. Such an idea is offensive.
According to the considerations of Mayavadi fools, the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the material world. A Vaisnava, however, knows perfectly well that for Krsna, Lord Jagannatha or Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu-unlike ordinary human beings-there is no distinction between the body and the soul. Even in the material world His Lordship retains His spiritual identity; therefore Lord Krsna exhibited all opulences even in His childhood body. There is no distinction between the body and soul of Krsna; whether He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical with His body. Even though Krsna appears like an ordinary human being, He is never subjected to the rules and regulations of the material world. He is svarat, or fully independent. He can appear in the material world, but contrary to the offensive conclusion of the Mayavada school, He has no material body. In this connection one may again refer to the above-mentioned verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.11.38):
etad isanam isasya
prakrti-stho 'pi tad-gunaih na yujyate sadatma-sthair yatha buddhis tad-asraya The Supreme Person has an eternal spiritual body. If one tries to distinguish between the body and soul of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he commits a great offense.
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