sei bhite hÄta diyÄ phala paraÅ›ilÄ
kṛṣṇa-yogya nahe, phala apavitra hailÄ

 sei bhite - on that ceiling; hÄta diyÄ - touching your hand; phala - the fruits; paraÅ›ilÄ - touched; kṛṣṇa-yogya nahe - is not fit to be offered to Kṛṣṇa; phala - the fruits; apavitra hailÄ - has become contaminated.


Text

“ ‘After touching the ceiling above the door, you have touched the coconuts. Now they are no longer fit to be offered to Kṛṣṇa because they are contaminated.’

Purport

ÅšrÄ«la BhaktisiddhÄnta SarasvatÄ« ṬhÄkura states that RÄghava Paṇá¸ita was not simply a crazy fellow suffering from some cleansing mania. He did not belong to the mundane world. In lower consciousness, accepting something to be spiritual when it is actually material is called bhauma ijya-dhīḥ. RÄghava Paṇá¸ita was an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, and everything he saw was related to the service of the Lord. He was always absorbed in the transcendental thought of how he could always serve Kṛṣṇa with everything. Sometimes neophytes, devotees on the lower platform, try to imitate RÄghava Paṇá¸ita on the platform of material purity and impurity. Such imitation will not help anyone. As explained in the Caitanya-caritÄmá¹›ta (Antya-lÄ«lÄ 4.174), bhadrÄbhadra-vastu-jñÄna nÄhika ‘prÄká¹›te.’ On the transcendental platform there is no higher or lower, pure or impure. On the material platform, distinction is made between good and bad, but on the spiritual platform everything is of the same quality.

‘dvaite’ bhadrÄbhadra-jñÄna, saba — ‘manodharma’
‘ei bhÄla, ei manda’, — ei saba ‘bhrama’

“In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations. Therefore, saying ‘This is good and that is bad’ is all a mistake.†(Cc. Antya 4.176)