Purify the mind by hearing Krishna-katha; transcend false ego and material suffering through devotional association.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.16 — November 16, 1974, Bombay 741116SB-BOMBAY [41:21 Minutes] SB-03.25.16_741116SB-BOMBAY [loud sound of firecrackers in background throughout] Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] ahaṁ mamābhimānotthaiḥ kāma-lobhādibhir malaiḥ vītaṁ yadā manaḥ śuddham aduḥkham asukhaṁ samam [SB 3.25.16] [break] [01:11] "When one is completely cleansed of the impurities of lust and greed produced from false identification of the body as 'I' and bodily possessions as 'mine,' one's mind becomes purified. In that pure state he transcends the stage of so-called material happiness and distress." Prabhupāda: ahaṁ mamābhimānotthaiḥ kāma-lobhādibhir malaiḥ vītaṁ yadā manaḥ śuddham aduḥkham asukhaṁ samam [SB 3.25.16] In the previous verse it has been advised, guṇeṣu saktaṁ bandhāya rataṁ vā puṁsi muktaye [SB 3.25.15]. The process is that... [firecracker noise] The process is, the mind has to be cleansed of all dirty things.
Mind is the friend; mind is the enemy of everyone. If it is cleansed, then it is friends, and if it is dirty... Just like if you keep yourself unclean, then you contaminate some disease, and if you keep yourself clean, then you don't contaminate. If you take action, remaining...
Therefore according to Vedic civilization, one has to cleanse himself three times a day, tri-sandhyā: morning, early in the morning, again at noon, again in the evening. Those who are strictly following the brahminical rules and regulation... Vaiṣṇava also. Vaiṣṇava means he's already brāhmaṇa.
So he must follow the rules and... Satyaṁ śamo damas titikṣā ārjava jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyam... [Bg. 18.42]. So cleanliness is next to godliness. So the...
Actually, our material conditioned life means the mind is covered with dirt, all unclean, dirty things. That is the disease. When we are in the lower stage of tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa, these dirty things are very much prominent. Therefore one has to raise himself from the position of tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa to sattva-guṇa.
The process is recommended, how to cleanse the mind: śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ [SB 1.2.17]. One has to hear the kṛṣṇa-kathā. Kṛṣṇa is within everyone's heart, and when He sees that a conditioned soul... Because the individual soul is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa wants that "This individual soul, rascal, he is so much attached for material enjoyment, which is the cause of his bondage, birth and death, old age and disease, and he's so fool that he does not take into consideration that 'Why I should be subjected to repetition of birth, death, old age and disease?' " He has become so fool.
Mūḍha. Therefore they have been described: mūḍha, ass. Ass... Just like ass does not know why he is loading so much, so many cloths of the washerman.