Only unalloyed devotion to Krishna uproots sin completely; all other paths leave the root intact and allow regrowth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.15 — June 27, 1975, Los Angeles 750627SB-LOS ANGELES [23:27 Minutes] SB-06.01.15_750627SB-LOS ANGELES Santoṣa: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ [SB 6.1.15] [break] [01:29] Translation: "The rare person who has completely adopted unalloyed devotional service can uproot all the weeds of sinful activities simply by discharging that service, and there is no possibility that the weeds will grow again.
His devotional service is just like the sun, which can immediately dissipate fog simply by its rays." Prabhupāda: kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ [SB 6.1.15] So we have been discussing for the last few days how to become free from the reaction of our sinful life. That is real problem. But people, they have no knowledge what is life, what is sinful life, what is pious life, why we are put into this condition that "We have to do this; we haven't got to do that." This is real philosophy of life. The āsuras, as we were discussing in this morning walk, they do not know it. Āsurās...
Pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca na vidur āsurāḥ janāḥ [Bg. 16.7]. We are living... In the ordinary life also, we live a little carefully so that we may not fall sick. For that purpose there is very vigilance in the immigration department, that in Australia we had some nice mangoes brought from Bombay, and they did not allow to take it.
They thought this mango is more dangerous than the dry meat. They will allow importation of dry meat, three hundred years old, [laughter] put into the refrigerator, and that is imported. That is not infectious. But mango, very nice mango, fresh mango—we started in Bombay at night, and we came in the morning—it has become poisonous. So we are so much precautious that not any germs, infectious disease, may enter.
That is there. But what is that infection which has caused me to accept this material body again and again? That they do not know. That they do not know.
They do not believe in the next life, and therefore āsurāḥ janāḥ. This is the symptom or characteristic of the āsurāḥ janāḥ. You should be precautious. That is natural.
We become precautious, that "We should not do this so that I may not fall sick." But we do not know what is our real sickness. That we do not know. That is being presented by Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā, that "This is your sickness, real sickness." What is that? Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9]. You are trying to be unaffected by all kinds of sickness, but your real sickness is this material disease: you take birth, you die, you become old and you suffer from diseases.