TEXTS 910
sa ca prakrtair dvipada-pasubhir unmatta-jada-badhira-mukety abhibhasyamano yada tad-anurupani prabhasate karmani ca karyamanah parecchaya karoti vistito vetanato va yacnaya yadrcchaya vopasaditam alpam bahu mrstam kadannam vabhyavaharati param nendriya-priti-nimittam. nitya-nivrtta-nimitta-sva-siddha-visuddhanubhavananda-svatma-labhadhigamah sukha-duhkhayor dvandva-nimittayor asambhavita-dehabhimanah. sitosna-vata-varsesu vrsa ivanavrtangah pinah samhananangah sthandila-samvesananunmardanamajjana-rajasa mahamanir ivanabhivyakta-brahma-varcasah kupatavrta-katir upavitenoru-masina dvijatir iti brahma-bandhur iti samjnayataj-jnajanavamato vicacara.
SYNONYMS
sah cahe also; prakrtaihby common persons who have no access to spiritual knowledge; dvi-pada-pasubhihwho are nothing but animals with two legs; unmattamad; jadadull; badhiradeaf; mukadumb; itithus; abhibhasyamanahbeing addressed; yadawhen; tat-anurupaniwords suitable to reply to theirs; prabhasatehe used to speak; karmaniactivities; caalso; karyamanahbeing caused to execute; para-icchayaby the order of others; karotihe used to act; vistitahby force; vetanatahor by some wages; vaeither; yacnayaby begging; yadrcchayaby its own accord; vaor; upasaditamgotten; alpama very small quantity; bahua large quantity; mrstamvery palatable; kat-annamstale, tasteless foods; vaor; abhyavaharatihe used to eat; paramonly; nanot; indriya-priti-nimittamfor the satisfaction of the senses; nityaeternally; nivrttastopped; nimittafruitive activity; sva-siddhaby self-accomplished; visuddhatranscendental; anubhava-anandablissful perception; sva-atma-labha-adhigamahwho has achieved knowledge of the self; sukha-duhkhayohin happiness and distress; dvandva-nimittayohin the causes of duality; asambhavita-deha-abhimanahnot identified with the body; sitain the winter; usnain the summer; vatain the wind; varsesuin the rainfall; vrsaha bull; ivalike; anavrta-angahuncovered body; pinahvery strong; samhanana-angahwhose limbs were firm; sthandila-samvesanafrom lying down on the ground; anunmardanawithout any massage; amajjanawithout bathing; rajasaby dirt; maha-manihhighly valuable gem; ivalike; anabhivyaktaunmanifested; brahma-varcasahspiritual splendor; ku-pata-avrtacovered by a dirty cloth; katihwhose loins; upavitenawith a sacred thread; uru-masinawhich was highly blackish due to dirt; dvi-jatihborn in a brahmana family; itithus (saying out of contempt); brahma-bandhuha friend of a brahmana; itithus; samjnayaby such names; a-tat-jna-janaby persons not knowing his real position; avamatahbeing disrespected; vicacarahe wandered.
TRANSLATION
Degraded men are actually no better than animals. The only difference is that animals have four legs and such men have only two. These two-legged, animalistic men used to call Jada Bharata mad, dull, deaf and dumb. They mistreated him, and Jada Bharata behaved for them like a madman who was deaf, blind or dull. He did not protest or try to convince them that he was not so. If others wanted him to do something, he acted according to their desires. Whatever food he could acquire by begging or by wages, and whatever came of its own accordbe it a small quantity, palatable, stale or tastelesshe would accept and eat. He never ate anything for sense gratification because he was already liberated from the bodily conception, which induces one to accept palatable or unpalatable food. He was full in the transcendental consciousness of devotional service, and therefore he was unaffected by the dualities arising from the bodily conception. Actually his body was as strong as a bulls, and his limbs were very muscular. He didnt care for winter or summer, wind or rain, and he never covered his body at any time. He lay on the ground, and never smeared oil on his body or took a bath. Because his body was dirty, his spiritual effulgence and knowledge were covered, just as the splendor of a valuable gem is covered by dirt. He only wore a dirty loincloth and his sacred thread, which was blackish. Understanding that he was born in a brahmana family, people would call him a brahma-bandhu and other names. Being thus insulted and neglected by materialistic people, he wandered here and there.
PURPORT
Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung: deha-smrti nahi yara, samsara-bandhana kahan tara. One who has no desire to maintain the body or who is not anxious to keep the body in order and who is satisfied in any condition must be either mad or liberated. Actually Bharata Maharaja in his birth as Jada Bharata was completely liberated from material dualities. He was a paramahamsa and therefore did not care for bodily comfort.

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