Question: Nāradamuni is a pure devotee of the Lord and comes to the material world in a spiritual body as and when he likes to preach and make devotees. However, we see that Krṣṇa sends all our ācāryas, and Śrīla Prabhupāda and you, who are pure devotees, to this world in material body for preaching. The material body means suffering for the ācāryas, spiritual master, and even we disciples are very much pained in our heart to see such suffering of the ācāryas spiritual master. Why does Krṣṇa not send our ācāryas in a spiritual body? Because for him to do this is very easy.

Jayapataka Swami: So, we consider that Śrīla Prabhupāda’s body was transcendental, because he used it always in Krṣṇa’s service. But see Nārada muni was continually travelling throughout the universe. He was cursed by the parents of his disciples, that he could not stay in any place for very long. So Prabhupāda told that I have been also cursed like that, and therefore I have various temples all over the world, I cannot stay anywhere, but now you have to take this curse,so he passed the curse on to his sannyāsī disciples. So, curses, they are not effective in the holy dhāma,so I can stay in the holy dhāma. But if I go outside, I only stay a few days in each place. So, in the different pastimes of Krṣṇa, some devotees would take different forms, and that is Krṣṇa’s desire. Nārada muni also stays in the universe for many days or lifetimes of Brahmā, and when the universe is destroyed at the end of the day of Brahmā, Nārada muni, sometimes he is in the body of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and he comes out when Brahmā wakes up.
11-June-2020 SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA