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One's beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable

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"One's beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable"

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Adi-lila

One's beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable.

CC Adi 16.70, Translation and Purport

One's beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable.

The great sage Bharata Muni, an authority on poetic metaphor, has given his opinion in this connection as follows.

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