Verse Six

dṛṣṭaiḥ svabhāva-janitair vapuṣaś ca doṣair
na prākṛtatvam iha bhakta janasya paśyet
gaṅgāmbhasāṁ na khalu budbuda-phena-paṅkair
brahma-dravatvam apagacchati nīra-dharmaiḥ

Do not consider devotees in this world mundane because of faults in their nature and body. The water of the Ganges never loses its spiritual nature because of bubbles, foam, and mud, which are natural in water.

Bhasya by Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur

nira-dharma-gata phena-pankadi-samyukta
ganga-jala brahmata ha-ite nahe chyuta [1]

Ganges water does not lose its spiritual nature because it contains foam, mud, and so on, which are natural in water.

sei-rupa suddha-bhakta jada-deha-gata
svabhava-vapura dose na haya prakrta [2]

Similarly, pure devotees are not mundane because of faults within their nature and form that are natural in the material body.

ataeva dekhiya bhaktera kadakara
svabhavaja varna karkasyadi dosa ara [3]
prakrta baliya bhakte kabhu na nindibe
suddha-bhakti dekhi’ ta̐re sarvada vandibe [4]

Therefore, upon seeing the faults produced by a devotee’s nature or class, such as ugliness or roughness, never consider a devotee mundane and criticise them. Rather, see their pure devotion and always revere them.

Piyusa-varsini-vrtti by Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur

One should not consider pure devotees to be mundane after seeing faults within them. This is what is being taught in the sixth verse. There is no possibility of pure devotees keeping bad association or making offences to the Name. They may, however, have some bodily or innate faults. Bodily faults include being ugly, diseased, deformed, or unsightly because of disease or other causes. Innate faults include being low-class, rough, lazy, and so on. As Ganges water does not lose its nature of being liquid spirit because of mud, bubbles, and foam, which are natural in water, so self-realised Vaisnavas are not contaminated by any mundane fault resulting from their birth or the inherent transformations of the material body. Therefore, if persons practising devotion consider pure Vaisnavas condemnable because they see such faults within them, then they become offenders of the Name.