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This state, vasudevakhyam, or cittam, always filled up with Vasudeva consciousness... Vasudeva, Krsna... Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. So our present position of consciousness is polluted by the three modes of material nature: sattva-guna, tamo-guna and rajo-guna. Here sattva-guna, the mode of goodness, the brahminical qualification-satyam samo damah saucam arjavam, jnanam vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma svabhava-jam [Bg 18.42], still it has to be purified. That is called svaccham. Svaccham means completely crystallike clear. Just like we have got experience: if you go into the mid-ocean, you can see within the water very deep, twenty feet, thirty feet, very clear. Those who have gone through a sea, they have experienced. Very clear. So the citta, consciousness, must be clear. Vasudevakhyam: when one can clearly see Vasudeva, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is possible. Simply we have to purify the citta.
(More...) That is the process given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, how to cleanse the citta, consciousness. Ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc Antya 20.12]. This is the process of cleansing the mirror of the heart. Mirror, when it isMarjanam means cleansing, polishing. Ceto-darpana-marjanam. And as soon as the citta, or consciousness, you perfectly cleanse, then bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam. This bhava-maha-davagni: the material existence is compared with blazing forest fire. This is the right comparison, because in the forest nobody goes to set fire, but it takes place. You cannot stop it. And when the forest fire is there, you cannot stop the fire also by your so many counteracting method, namely getting the fire brigade or buckets of water. That is also not possible. Therefore Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has compared this material life as blazing forest fire, samsara-davanala-lidha-loka.
(More...) And under her spell we are trying to become happy. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [SB 7.9.43]. And the devotees, the Krsna conscious persons, they know that this is all false-not false; temporary, simply bewildering. On account of contaminated consciousness, people are trying to be happy in this way, but devotees know that this kind of endeavor is simply bewildering, simply waste of time. Real business is how to purify my consciousness, come to the original Krsna consciousness. That is real business. Svacchatvam avikaritvam. That is our real business. Caitanya Mahaprabhu's preaching is that our only business is how to revive our original consciousness. That is Krsna consciousness. That is wanted. Without this, whatever we are doing, in the words of Srila Prahlada Maharaja, "It is all maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan." Maya-sukhaya.
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