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Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc Madhya 19.170]. Nirmala means without any dirt, cleansed completely, crystal clear. That is required. The senses will be there, the mind will be there, the intelligence will be there, I'll be there-everything will be there, but we have to cleanse the desire, purify the desires. Asa-pasa-satair baddhaḥ [Bg 16.12]. Here, the demons, they're also desiring, but baddhaḥ: they are becoming conditioned. But a devotee, he's also desiring, but he's mukta, means liberated. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, yajnarthe karmano 'nyatra, karma-bandhanaḥ [Bg 3.9]:    (More...)