Purification through constant remembrance of Krishna gradually liberates the soul from material contamination into eternal personal devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Sannyāsa Initiation — February 20, 1970, Los Angeles 700220IN-LOS ANGELES [27:12 Minutes] Initiation of Sanyass_700220IN-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: nama apavitraḥ pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bāhya abhyantaram śuci śrī viṣṇu, śrī viṣṇu, śrī viṣṇu [Garuḍa Purāṇa] The purport of this mantra is that any condition of life. There are two conditions: pavitra and apavitraḥ. Pavitra means purified, and apavitraḥ means contaminated. We are all spirit soul.
By nature we are purified, but at the present moment, in this material condition of life with this material body, we are contaminated. So this whole process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to liberate ourself from the contaminated state to the pure stage. Just like a man, when he is diseased, he is treated under prescribed medical method to come to the healthy stage. To come to the healthy stage does not mean that your features will be changed. Just like a diseased man, when he is cured of the disease, he has got the same two hands and legs and mouth and everything.
It is simply he is freed from the symptoms of the disease. Similarly, to become liberated does not mean that we shall become impersonal. That is a false theory. Every living entity is a person. God is person, everyone: nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13].
God is the Supreme Person amongst millions... Why millions? Unlimited persons, asaṅkhya. Asaṅkhya means there is no number how many living entities we are.
They are simply left in plural number, nityānāṁ. Nityo nityānāṁ: Kṛṣṇa, or God, is singular number, nitya, and we living entities, we are plural number. How many we are, there is no counting. Jīva-asāṅkhyā: the living entities are innumerable, but God is one. So the Vedic information gives us that God is one supreme person, eternal amongst many eternals—but they are not supreme.
This plural number are not supreme. Supreme means one. If supreme has any competition, then how He can be supreme? Therefore there is nobody equal to God or greater than Him.
Asamordhva. Asama means "nobody can be on the equal level of God. " Whoever he may be, however powerful that he may be, nobody can be equal with God. Just like Kṛṣṇa, when He was playing His pastime as a child of Yaśodā. Mother Yaśodā was trying to bind Him, and she collected rope in her home as much as possible, and as soon as she was going to knot, give knot, there was some shortage, two inches.