Purification without Krishna consciousness is impossible; engage your tongue in chanting and prasadam.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.18 — July 1, 1975, Denver 750701SB-DENVER [22:18 Minutes] SB-06.01.18_750701SB-DENVER Prabhupāda: [leads prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.
Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [break] Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
[devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 18. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] prāyaścittāni cīrṇāni nārāyaṇa-parāṅmukham na niṣpunanti rājendra surā-kumbham ivāpagāḥ [SB 6.1.18] [break] [02:07] "Those persons who are performing many processes of atonement cannot become purified by such atonement due to their being nondevotees, just as a pot containing liquor cannot be purified even if it is washed by all the rivers combined together." Prabhupāda: prāyaścittāni cīrṇāni nārāyaṇa-parāṅmukham na niṣpunanti rājendra surā-kumbham ivāpagāḥ [SB 6.1.18] Ivāpagāḥ. So here is one significant word, surā-kumbham. Everything is washed very nicely.
If you go to the river, you can wash very nicely. But just see how much infectious is liquor that the any pot or any bottle which was filled up with liquor, they cannot be purified. This is Vedic civilization. How much condemned is liquor!
Because a pot was filled up with liquor, you cannot use it for any other purpose. It is lost. Even if you wash it very nicely, no, it will not be accepted. Finished.
Similarly, there are many processes of purification; they cannot be as useful as bhagavad-bhakti. Bhagavad-bhakti is so nice that Kṛṣṇa says that "You surrender to Me," sarva-dharmān parityajya, "and immediately you become immune from all reaction of sinful activity. Immediately." sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ [Bg. 18.66] Bhagavad-bhakti is so strong. In many places it is stated in the śāstra. dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ notpādayed yadi ratiṁ śrama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8] So there are different varieties of religious system, but if you execute your particular type of religious system very perfectly, but the result—if you do not become attached to Kṛṣṇa, your love for Kṛṣṇa is not awakened—then simply by performing such ritualistic ceremony or rules and regulation of your religious system, if you do not become..., develop yourself to love God, then it is all useless waste of time.
It has no meaning. That is the test, how to become..., how to advance in loving service of the Lord. That is the... Then you are religious, you are philosopher, you are great man, you are everything.