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Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of …

yat tat sattva-guṇaṁ svacchaṁ śāntaṁ bhagavataḥ padam yad āhur vāsudevākhyaṁ cittaṁ tan mahad-ātmakam

[SB 3.26.21]

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"The mode of goodness, which is the clear, sober status of understanding the Personality of Godhead and which is generally …

Prabhupāda:

yat tat sattva-guṇaṁ svacchaṁ śāntaṁ bhagavataḥ padam yad āhur vāsudevākhyaṁ cittaṁ tan mahad-ātmakam

[SB 3.26.21]

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvam itam sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ

[Bg. 7.19]

This state, vāsudevākhyam, or cittam, always filled up with Vāsudeva consciousness... Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa... Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya [SB 1.1.1]. So …

That is the process given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, how to cleanse the citta, consciousness. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Mārjanam …

This material world is blazing fire. Blazing fire means the forest fire. The forest fire... The example is very typical, …

That is the injunction of the śāstra:

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukhaṁ kālena sarvatra gabhīra-raṁhasā

[SB 1.5.18]

Tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukham. Just like distress comes upon me without endeavor, similarly, according to my destiny... Destiny means …

Everyone is trying to become happy according to his own mental concoction or endeavor, but there cannot be any unalloyed …

The example is given, śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ. The winter season and the summer season, they come and go. To somebody, winter season …

So we have to purify the consciousness. Then we shall be without any touch of this so-called distress and happiness. …