CC Antya 5.19

Antya-līlā, Chapter 5, Text 19

কাষ্ঠ-পাষাণ-স্পর্শে হয় যৈছে ভাব ।
তরুণী-স্পর্শে রামানন্দের তৈছে ‘স্বভাব’ ॥ ১৯ ॥

kāṣṭha-pāṣāṇa-sparśe haya yaiche bhāva
taruṇī-sparśe rāmānandera taiche ‘svabhāva’

Word by word

kāṣṭha — wood; pāṣāṇa — stone; sparśe — by touching; haya — there is; yaiche — as; bhāva — mental position; taruṇī-sparśe — by touching the young girls; rāmānandera — of Rāmānanda Rāya; taiche — like that; svabhāva — nature.

Translation

While touching the young girls, he was like a person touching wood or stone, for his body and mind were unaffected.