So you try to make Kṛṣṇa sun rise in your heart. Kṛṣṇa sūrya-sama (CC Madhya 22.31). In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said Kṛṣṇa is just like sun. Māyā haya andhakāra. And māyā, this illusory energy, it is darkness. Yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra (CC Madhya 22.31). As soon as there is sun, Kṛṣṇa, immediately darkness of māyā disappears.
So why not take this simple method? All māyā disappears. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā (BG 7.14). Otherwise, to surpass, to overcome this ocean of darkness, māyā, is very difficult. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā. Duratyayā, very, very difficult. Hard. Then how? Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te (BG 7.14). Simply teach people to surrender unto Kṛṣṇa, God. All illusion, fog, mist will disappear. Will disappear.
And the method is very simple: chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa . . . the more you go on chanting, the . . . the fog within your heart, the clumsy darkness of many, many lives' sinful activities, will be cleared. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12). And everything will be seen very distinctly. What I am. What is God. What is this world. What is our interrelation. How I shall live in this world. Then what is my next life. These things are not taught. Simply how to manufacture something for sense gratification. After all, it is sense gratification.
You may discover . . . the other day somebody was telling me in Los Angeles that they have discovered an aeroplane which can run on very, I mean, speedily. But there is danger. As soon as the aeroplane will run on, there may be many windows here in the city, they'll dismantle. So we are trying to create something for sense gratification—at the same time, side by side, we are creating so many inconvenience. In this way, our time is being wasted. Action and reaction. Action and reaction.
There must be some reaction. Whatever you do, there must be reaction. And that reaction you'll be entangled. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: yajñārthe karma anyatra karma-bandhanaḥ (BG 3.9). Either you do good work or bad work, if it is for sense gratification, then you'll be entangled. But yajñārthe karma, if you do for kṛṣṇa-yajña, then you are free. So this process, recommended by Śukadeva Gosvāmī—kevalayā-bhakta—take to devotional service, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and everything, all other things, will be automatically adjusted.
- na tathā hy aghavān rājan
- pūyeta tapa-ādibhiḥ
- yathā kṛṣṇārpita-prāṇas
- tat-puruṣa-niṣevayā
- (SB 6.1.16)
Now he clearly summarizes: na tathā hy aghavān. Hy aghavān means one who is sinful. Every one of us sinful, more or less. That's all. Otherwise, unless you are sinful, you don't get this material body. As soon as we are free from sinful life, then we are liberated. We are transferred to the spiritual world, and we get spiritual body. The whole process is how to cleanse ourself from the contamination of our sinful life. That is material world.
So here, Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that na tathā hy aghavān rājan. "My dear King," rājan—he's addressing the king, rājan—hy aghavān, "those who are sinful . . ." rājan na tathā hy aghavān rājan pūyeta. Pūyeta means becomes purified from contamination. Tapa-ādibhiḥ. Tapa-ādibhiḥ . . . tapa means this austerity, beginning from austerity, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena damena ca (SB 6.1.13). I've described. We have discussed. He says that one cannot be completely purified by executing these process of purificatory methods. Na tathā. Maybe.