So Lord Caitanya says by chanting this śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, I become at once liberated from this misconception of life. What I need? I am suffering due to my this misconception of life. The whole Vedic literature advises me that "You are not this material body." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am Brahman." Brahman means I am spirit. I am the supreme . . . not supreme spirit, but I am spirit, Brahman. The Vedic literature does not say that I am Parambrahman. Parambrahman is Bhagavān. Qualitatively, I am one with Parambrahman, and Brahman, there is qualitatively oneness, because Brahman. Gold, big gold or small gold, that doesn't matter. Gold, both of them are gold.
So Lord Caitanya says that ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12).
This misconception of life will be the first installment of our profit by chanting, by regularly chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, by performing this yajña. The first installment. That first installment will be: I become liberated from the material conception of life at once. The many great sages, they are going to Himalaya, they are going to the forest for meditation just to realize "What I am." Now Lord Caitanya says that this, what you are, your self-realization, your spiritual realization, will be the first installment. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam. This is simply . . . ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam means this is misconception, that what I am not, I am thinking I am. It is simply to understand that I am not. Actually I am not this. We can understand it very shortly, within a moment. That Bhagavad-gītā . . . I have already told you that avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam (BG 2.17).