Spirit cannot touch matter , matter cannot touch Spirit.
What do we mean by matter .
In one sense, everything is spiritual it is God’s energies, this is confirmed by Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha. Superior, marginal, and inferia energies. God and His kingdom are from the superior energies. The living beings from the marginal potency and the so-called material energies are the inferia energies. Matter and its energies are transformed and never destroyed.
Maya , that which is not , mean the marginal energies are entangled in the inferia energies and consider themselves master of them , they forget they are part of the marginal energies, and in forgetting seem to touch matter .The pure devotees never touch the material energies in a forgetfulness, they know the position of the Inferia energies and know it as God’s energies and return the energies back to the owner, they do not seek to use it separately. Being in Maya means you appear to touch and own matter and have an impression you are a body . Such Maya bound souls can not touch Spirit as much as spiritual persons don’t really touch matter .
When Krishna comes he exhibits full dominion over His inferia energies and breaks all its rules , He remains covered by Yoga maya and so His Godhood is not understood , either by His pure devotees because of an expansion of their love , or non devotees because of their ungodly state
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