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Santoṣa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ

[SB 6.1.15]

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Translation = "The rare person who has completely adopted unalloyed devotional service can uproot all the weeds of sinful activities …

Prabhupāda:

kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ

[SB 6.1.15]

So we have been discussing for the last few days how to become free from the reaction of our sinful …

They will allow importation of dry meat, three hundred years old, [laughter] put into the refrigerator, and that is imported. …

That is being presented by Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā, that "This is your sickness, real sickness." What is that? Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam …

So this cure of material disease have been described---we are discussing---first by atonement. So Parīkṣit Mahārāja did not like it …

Then it was suggested that people, because they are in darkness, āsuras, they do not know how to become immune …

tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena ca damena ca tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ yamena niyamena vā

[SB 6.1.13]

A series of practice. Then the brain will be clear. So this process also, not very safe. The example has …

So the root of our material enjoyment cannot be taken away, cannot be uprooted by... The first process is called …

Kṛṣṇa conscious person or vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ, the same thing. Vāsudeva means Kṛṣṇa, that "Simply I shall worship Kṛṣṇa," kevalayā, "nothing else." …

vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam

[SB 1.2.7]