Now he is giving very nice example. Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like in the dry season there are so many dry grasses from the field, and if you have to clear the field, you simply set fire on the field and everything automatically becomes cleansed, similarly, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajṣāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ. Those who are intelligent enough, dharmajṣāḥ, one who knows what is real religious principle, and śraddhayānvitāḥ, and who is faithful, he can get out of all kinds of sinful activities by an intelligent method.
What is that intelligent method?
- kecit kevalaya bhaktyā
- vāsudeva parāyaṇāḥ
- aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena
- nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ
- (SB 6.1.15)
That he says, that simply by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or devotional service, pure devotional service, vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ . . . vāsudeva means Kṛṣṇa. One who is devoted to Kṛṣṇa, simply by that devotional process, and always being in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, agham dhunvanti kārtsnyena, one can get out of all sinful reactions. How? Nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ. Nīhāram means dews. You have seen in this season, so many dews are on the grass, on the tree. As soon as there is sunrise, everything finished. Everything finished. It is very nice example.
So if you bring forth the sun of Kṛṣṇa . . . these are all products . . . these sinful activities is due to ignorance. Ignorance is darkness, māyā, and Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa consciousness is just like the sun. So now this is night; everything is dark. If some way or other there is sunrise, then immediately the darkness is finished.
So Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that kecit. Kecit. Kecit means it is not possible for all, but some fortunate men do like this instead of going to so many details how to get out of this sinful reaction, simply by Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service. Vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ, those who are devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa, agham . . . agham means all kinds of sinful reaction. Dhunvanti kārtsnyena.
Wholesale. Kārtsnyena means wholesale. Kārtsnyena nihāram. Nihāram means just like dews; bhāskaraḥ means sun. As the sun disseminates immediately, dissipates immediately the dews without any effort, similarly, as soon as there is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you become free from all sinful reaction.
Another thing, this is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā also, that the Lord says that sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66):
"You give up all kinds of bodily religious principles of life." What is that? Kṛṣṇa is asking sarva-dharmān. Dharma means religious principle. Now in one place He said that dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya, "I have come to reestablish the religious principle," and at the end He says sarva-dharmān parityajya. Sarva-dharmān.
This sarva-dharmān, all kinds of religious principles pertaining to the bodily concept of life. We present ourselves that "I am Hindu" or "I am Christian," "I am Muhammadan." This is all due to bodily con