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’prakrta’ haile ha tomara vapu nari upeksite

bhadrabhadra-vastu-jnana nahika ’prakrte’

SYNONYMS

prakrta—material; haile ha—even if it were; tomara—your; vapu—body; nari—I cannot; upeksite—neglect; bhadra-abhadra—good and bad; vastu-jnana—appreciation of things; nahika—there is not; prakrte—in the material world "Even if your body were material, I still could not neglect it, for the material body should be considered neither good nor bad.

PURPORT

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu told Sanatana Gosvami, "Since you are a Vaisnava, your body is spiritual, not material.

Therefore you should not consider this body to be subjected to superior or inferior qualities.

Moreover, I am a sannyasi.

Therefore even if your body were material, a sannyasi should see no distinction between a good body and a bad body.