Devotional service destroys sin like sunlight destroys fog; transcendental sound vibration descends to liberate souls from material illusion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ [SB 6.1.15] [Only a rare person who has adopted complete, unalloyed devotional service to Kṛṣṇa can uproot the weeds of sinful actions with no possibility that they will revive. He can do this simply by discharging devotional service, just as the sun can immediately dissipate fog by its rays.] This language of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam—perfect. We should always remember that these wordings of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are not ordinary sounds. They are transcendental sounds, just like Hare Kṛṣṇa, this sound is transcendental sound.
This is vibrated in the spiritual sky, but by the spiritual process the sound is received here. In the present day, as you receive sound from a distant place by radio machine, wireless or telegram, like that, so it is possible to receive the sound vibration in the spiritual sky. You should simply know the process, or you should have a suitable machine to receive it. So this śabda-brahma… Brahma means spiritual, the all-pervading. The material sound that vibrates, any sound that you produce, immediately it rotates seven times over this earth, and if you have got a machine, you can catch it.
Similarly, there is process to catch the transcendental vibration from the spiritual sky. Śrī Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura therefore prays, golokera prema-dhana, hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana. This saṅkīrtana movement is descended from the spiritual sky, golokera prema-dhana, and by this sound vibration the devotees, devotees, develop their love of God. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says this is a gift of the spiritual sky: golokera prema-dhana. Hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana.
This hari-nāma—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, this is called hari-nāma. Nāma means “name.” Saṅkīrtana. Saṅkīrtana means just like we are assembled here, many boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, and conjointly we are chanting. This is called saṅkīrtana.
Bahubhir militvā kīrtayati. It is saṅkīrtana. When many persons assemble together and chant the glorification of the Lord, that is called saṅkīrtana, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam. So this saṅkīrtana, golokera prema-dhana: this is a gift from the spiritual sky. So Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, golokera prema-dhana, hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana, rati nā janmilo kene tāya [Iṣṭa-deve Vijñapti] [The treasure of divine love in Goloka Vṛndāvana has descended as the congregational chanting of Lord Hari’s holy names. Why did my attraction for that chanting never come about? Day and night my heart burns in the fire of the poison of worldliness, and I have not accepted the means for relieving it.] He is lamenting that “This spiritual sound vibration is so nice that it can give us relief from these material pangs, but I have no attraction for them.” Rati nā janmilo kene tāya. “Why I'm not attracted?” Viṣānale, divā-niśi hiyā jvale: he says that “In the material existence, my heart is always burning.” Everyone who is engaged in material activities, full of anxieties and hard warning[?]. There is no doubt about it.
Nobody can say, “Oh, I am very well situated.” No, he is not well situated; therefore he is trying to be well situated by some artificial means of intoxication. That's all. He wants to divert his attention, but that is not perfect. Just like if you remain in the fire, you cannot avoid the temperature.
So the only means is, as Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, that so long you are engaged in chanting and making these transcendental vibrations, then you'll feel comfortable; otherwise it is not. So here it is stated, our subject matter is sinful activities and how to check them. If we do not check, if we do not become free from sinful activities, then we will have to undergo this cycle of birth and death. That is our problem. But foolish people, they do not understand this, that what is the problem of life.