Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness - Prabhupada 0748

660527 - Lecture BG 03.17-20 - New York

So cleanliness is next to godliness. To take bath, to evacuate daily, to wash the teeth, wash clothings, this cleanliness process. But as the days of this Kali-yuga will make progress, this system of hygienic cleanliness, cleanliness both inside and outside . . . outside by taking bath, inside by becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious—two kinds of cleanliness. Simply if we take bath with soap outside, and inside all rubbish thing, then that is not cleanliness. Cleanliness means bahyābhyantaraṁ. Bahya means outside, without; abhyantaraṁ means inside.

Unless we are clean, unless we are pure, how we can make advance to approach the Supreme? The Supreme is described as the purest.