Waste not even a moment; chant Hare Krishna constantly to transcend passion and ignorance into pure devotional love.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.19 and Initiation Lecture — July 21, 1974, New Vrindaban 740721SB-NEW VRINDAVAN [23:59 Minutes] SB-01.02.19_740721SB-NEW VRINDAVAN [recorded on faulty equipment] Prabhupāda: Sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati [SB 1.2.19]. Everyone wants happiness, peace of mind. How it is possible? That is explained here: ceta etair anāviddhaṁ [SB 1.2.19].
Everything is within the heart. So we are being [indistinct] by the rajas, tamas. Rajas means passion, desire for material enjoyment, and tamas means ignorance. Neither enjoyment nor knowledge.
Just like animal: animal has no material enjoyment, neither he has knowledge. So similarly, persons who are infected by the tamo-guna, they do not know what is the meaning of life, neither are they interested[?]. People are becoming affected by this tamo-guna. Therefore even in this Western country they are turning to the hippies.
No material enjoyment, no spiritual knowledge—simply in darkness. So if we develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness, just the process of hearing—śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ [SB 1.2 17]—if we simply practice the process of hearing about Kṛṣṇa, then gradually the darkness of ignorance and passion will disappear. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ [Śikṣāṣṭaka 1]. We are suffering in this material life on account of these three modes of material nature, especially the modes of passion and ignorance. But here is the process how to get out of these modes of passion and ignorance especially.
Also material goodness. Sometimes material goodness is also a cause of bondage. A person falsely thinks that "Now I have become a brāhmaṇa," or "I have got a sacred thread; therefore my business is finished. Now I can do anything.
It doesn’t matter." That is also another bondage. You have to still advance. Even if you… The brāhmaṇas… Actually, a brāhmaṇa does not think like that, that "Because I have got this sacred thread, my business is finished." We offer the sacred thread, but don’t make your business finished there. There is further progressive life.
After becoming brāhmaṇa, one has to become a Vaiṣṇava. This process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness… Just as we shall initiate several of our disciples, the first initiation and the second initiation. The first initiation is to give chance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. The beads are there, and the initiated members we will advise to refrain from sinful activities, and in pure heart chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Not in pure heart—heart is already polluted—but offenseless.