1970 - Prabhupada

19 SB 6:1:19 LA-1-70dd--5different kinds of literature.different kinds of literature.different kinds of literature.From nature's study you can see.For the crow-like men there areAnd for the swan-like men there areSo swan-like men, swan means hamsa.The swans, they have got a specialqualification. What is that? If you give a swan milk mixed withwater, the swan will take out only the milk portion, and the waterportion will remain.That means those who are swan-like men, theytake the essence, not the adulteration.Similarly, there are elevatedpersons who are also called paramahamsa. Paramahamsa. Thesame example of the hamsa, swan.Paramahamsa means they are interestedwith the essence of this world.Not with the adulteration.What is the adulteration?The adulteration is matter and theessence is spirit. Just like this body. What is this body? Thisbody is that I am a spirit soul, living entity, I am encaged inthis material body. Everything. Even in the atom there is someactive principle. A drug, there is some active principle. Sosimilarly, in this body, my body, your body, or uny body, whatis the active priaciple?The active principle is that living soul.As soon as the active principle is gone, then it is useless.Dustthou art, dust thou be-est.and it again becomes earth.Then this body is made of this earth,Either as stool or as earth or asashes. These are the our experience. Just like Hindus, they burnthis body. So this body become ashes. And there are communities,they throw out the body for being eaten up by birds and beasts.So it becomes stool.Because after eating they will pass stool.So the aftereffects of this beautiful body will be stool or ashes.We are now soaping so nicely, dressing so nicely this body, but the