Purify consciousness completely of material contamination to attain true peace and Krishna's eternal presence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.21 — December 30, 1974, Bombay 741230SB-BOMBAY [42:20 Minutes] SB-03.26.21_741230SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] yat tat sattva-guṇaṁ svacchaṁ śāntaṁ bhagavataḥ padam yad āhur vāsudevākhyaṁ cittaṁ tan mahad-ātmakam [SB 3.26.21] [break] [02:32] "The mode of goodness, which is the clear, sober status of understanding the Personality of Godhead and which is generally called vāsudeva, or consciousness, becomes manifest in the mahat-tattva." Prabhupāda: yat tat sattva-guṇaṁ svacchaṁ śāntaṁ bhagavataḥ padam yad āhur vāsudevākhyaṁ cittaṁ tan mahad-ātmakam [SB 3.26.21] bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvam itam sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ [Bg. 7.19] This state, vāsudevākhyam, or cittam, always filled up with Vāsudeva consciousness...
Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa... Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya [SB 1.1.1]. So our present position of consciousness is polluted by the three modes of material nature: sattva-guṇa, tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa. Here sattva-guṇa, the mode of goodness, the brahminical qualification—satyaṁ śamo damaḥ śaucam ārjavam, jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam [Bg. 18.42]—still it has to be purified.
That is called svaccham. Svaccham means completely crystallike clear. Just like we have got experience: if you go into the mid-ocean, you can see within the water very deep, twenty feet, thirty feet, very clear. Those who have gone through a sea, they have experienced.
Very clear. So the citta, consciousness, must be clear. Vāsudevākhyam: when one can clearly see Vāsudeva, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is possible.
Simply we have to purify the citta. That is the process given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, how to cleanse the citta, consciousness. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Mārjanam means cleansing, polishing.
Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam. And as soon as the citta, or consciousness, you perfectly cleanse, then bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam. This bhava-mahā-dāvāgni: the material existence is compared with blazing forest fire. This is the right comparison, because in the forest nobody goes to set fire, but it takes place.
You cannot stop it. And when the forest fire is there, you cannot stop the fire also by your so many counteracting method, namely getting the fire brigade or buckets of water. That is also not possible. Therefore Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has compared this material life as blazing forest fire, saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka **. This material world is blazing fire.