Krishna consciousness is eternally ours, eternally present—cleanse the heart through devotion and association with pure devotees.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.25 — August 6, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740806SB-VRNDAVAN [32:27 Minutes] SB-01.05.25_740806SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] ucchiṣṭa-lepān anumodito dvijaiḥ sakṛt sma bhuñje tad-apāsta-kilbiṣaḥ evaṁ pravṛttasya viśuddha-cetasas tad-dharma evātma-ruciḥ prajāyate [SB 1.5.25] [break] [02:04] "Once only, by their permission, I took the remnants of their food, and by so doing, all my sins were at once eradicated.
Thus being engaged, I became purified in heart, and at that time the very nature of the transcendentalist became attractive to me." Prabhupāda: ucchiṣṭa-lepān anumodito dvijaiḥ sakṛt sma bhuñje tad-apāsta-kilbiṣaḥ evaṁ pravṛttasya viśuddha-cetasas tad-dharma evātma-ruciḥ prajāyate [SB 1.5.25] Very simple process of awakening Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This ātma-ruciḥ... Ātma-ruciḥ means attraction for the self, or soul. There are ātmā. Ātmā means sometimes this body. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke [SB 10.84.13].
Gross materialists, they think that "I am this body." That is also ātma-ruciḥ. They are busy to maintain this body, to decorate this body, to feed this body, to satisfy the senses of the body. This is also ātma-ruciḥ, because the body is also called ātmā. So this is another ātma-ruciḥ, materialist.
Then ātmā means mind also, mental speculation, very much busy in mental speculation. That is also ātma-ruciḥ. And the..., the topmost ātma-ruciḥ, topmost means that is real ātma-ruciḥ, to be attracted by the self or Superself. That is ātma-ruciḥ. So our business is to awaken that Supreme ātma-ruciḥ.
That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Supreme ātma-ruciḥ, supreme ātmā. Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg. 7.7]. You can take in different platform different kinds of attraction, but when our attraction is in Kṛṣṇa, that is supreme.
So just like for bodily comforts, there are so many scientists, physiologists, biologists, they are trying to understand the constitution of the body. They are busy. And similarly, mental speculators, philosophers, they are also busy. Similarly, the ultimate ātma-ruciḥ if we want to know, then we should be busy with such persons who are engaged in that type of ātma-ruciḥ.
That is called sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83]. Saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ. As you associate, so your desires become, I mean to say, attached. So here it is said that dvijaiḥ..., ucchiṣṭa-lepān anumodito dvijaiḥ.