Chanting Hare Krishna purifies the diseased consciousness and returns us to our eternal nature as servants of God.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — December 26, 1969, Boston 691226IN-BOSTON [39:50 Minutes] Initiations_691226IN-BOSTON Prabhupāda: So this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is purifying your existence. Yasmād śuddhyed sattvam [SB 5.5.1]. [Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one's heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever.] Sattvam means existence.
You are existing, I am existing, God is existing—eternally. The temporary existence that we see at the present moment, this is not our existence. This is our diseased condition, crazy condition. Piśācī pāile yena mati-cchana.
Piśācī means ghost or witches. When one is haunted by ghost, he becomes upset of his own consciousness and talks all kinds of nonsense. Similarly, when our existence is covered by the material ghost we talk so many nonense: "I am this body, and anything in relationship with this body is mine. I am dying. I belong to this family.
I belong to this community, nation, this, that, planet." These are all just like a man haunted by ghost speaks nonsense, these are all nonsense. And the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to cure this disease. Śuddhyed sattvam, existence. That is called svarūpa, real identification. Mukti.
Mukti this... This word is very popular, mukti, liberation. What is that liberation? Liberation means to come to this platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
That is liberation. Svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ [SB 2.10.6]. [The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies.] Mukti is defined in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: muktir hitvānyathā rūpam. Muktir hitvā anyathā rūpam.
Anyathā rūpam. Rūpam means form. We are in a form which is not liberated form. Material form.