Simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is the only way. There is no other method. There are methods, but you cannot perform it, you are so condemned. "You" means we also, everyone. We are so condemned and the age is so condemned that it is very, very difficult. It is not possible. And another process is this, as Nārada Muni says, ucchiṣṭa-lepān anumodito dvijaiḥ: to serve the devotees, a pure devotee. If you serve some way or other, you contaminate his quality. Tad-dharma. Sakṛt bhuñje. One side is apāsta-kilbiṣaḥ. Kilbiṣaḥ means the sinful reaction of life. To reduce the reaction of sinful life . . . because unless we are sinful, we cannot remain within this . . . a prisoner means a criminal. As soon as you find a person in the prison house you should understand that he's a criminal. That criminality may be of different degrees—that is another thing—but he's a criminal. Similarly, anyone, beginning from Brahmā down to the germ in the stool, they're all sinful. All sinful. People will be surprised, that "Brahmā is also sinful?" Yes. Brahmā has also desired that, "I shall be the supreme creature within this brahmāṇḍa, whole universe." A little or more.
So anyone who has got this desire that "I shall enjoy in this material world," he's a sinful man. That is sinful. Because suppose something your . . . something belongs to you, and if I desire, "How I shall take this . . . possession of this thing?" is not that criminal? Something belongs to somebody, and if you make a plan to possess that thing, is it not criminal? So actually, Kṛṣṇa is the bhoktā. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram (BG 5.29). He is the proprietor, sarva-loka. Not a single plot of land belongs to you. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1). Actually Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor of everything, He is the enjoyer of everything. Then why I shall desire to enjoy and own the property? This is criminal. This is criminal. That may be in small portion. That is going on. The ant is also struggling for existence to possess a grain of sugar, and somebody is trying to possess some state, and somebody is trying to possess the whole universe. But the status of mentality is the same. So this mentality means criminality, this mentality: "How I shall become enjoyer? How I shall possess this?" Kṛṣṇa-bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare. He forgets. When one forgets that Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer, Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor, as soon as he forgets and tries to become himself the enjoyer or himself the proprietor, immediately māyā captures.
- kṛṣṇa-bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare
- pāśate māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare
- (Prema-vivarta)
"Yes, come on. Now come under my jurisdiction. Not there; here." This is the position.
Therefore we living entities, we are described taṭastha. Taṭastha means marginal. Actually, we are spirit soul, our position in the spiritual world, but we are sometimes fallen down in this material world on account of our desire to enjoy. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy—not His manufactured philosophy; this is the actual position—He, when He instructed Sanātana Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī put before Him the question that, "I was a minister, and I am a Brāhmiṇ, I'm very learned. They say, of course, that I am paṇḍitajī. But actually I do not know what is my position. Actually I am fool number one. I do not know what is my position. These innocent people, they call me I am paṇḍitajī, I am minister, I am this, I am that, and I accept that I am that. But actually, I do not know what I am." That is the position everywhere. You ask any prime minister that, "You are prime minister, but actually what you are? Will you remain prime minister forever?" he or she cannot answer this question. Or they evade this question. But this is really the question. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. One should try to understand "What I am?" but they do not rea . . . they do not inquire, neither they are interested. So foolish persons, they may be prime minister in this life; next life a dog. They don't care. But this is not life. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. One should inquire and purify himself.
So this purificatory process, here it is very simple. Try to take shelter of mahat-pāda-rajo-'bhiṣekam. Vinā mahat-pāda-rajo-'bhiṣekam. It is stated by Prahlāda Mahārāja, naiṣāṁ matis tāvad urukramāṅghrim (SB 7.5.32). Urukrama. Urukrama means Kṛṣṇa, whose activities are very, very great. Just like Kṛṣṇa lifts the mountain. It is called urukrama. Urukrama means His power is very, very great. Foolish persons accept a rascal as Bhagavān, but we are not so rascal. We accept Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, Urukrama. He can lift when . . . He can pick up the mountain, and immediately, He can keep on His finger. We want this kind of God. Not making like this and a grain of gold. (laughter) We are not so fool. We want this kind of God, Kṛṣṇa, Urukrama. So how this Urukrama, one can surrender? Naiṣāṁ matis tāvad urukrama aṅghrim. Aṅghrim means this leg. How one can be attached? Now, what is the use of taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet? Because these misgivings, this garbage of different types of desires, will be finished. So how it is possible? Niṣkiñcanānāṁ mahīyasāṁ pāda-rajo-'bhiṣekam. So long one does not take the dust of the lotus feet of a devotee who is niṣkiñcana, who has nothing to do with this material world, but he's exalted in Kṛṣṇa consciousness . . . unless you do that, there is no possibility. Mahīyasāṁ pāda-rajo-'bhiṣekam.
So here Nārada Muni is doing that. Mahīyasāṁ pāda-rajo-'bhiṣekam. Therefore by eating the remnants of foodstuff left by them, by washing their dishes, by washing their feet . . . everyone can do. Therefore this association is required. If one associates with devotee, pure devotee, and somehow or other gives service one another, to the spiritual master, to the Vaiṣṇava, automatically he becomes purified. Automatically, without any study of Vedānta, without any . . . simply by sincere service to the devotee. Evaṁ pravṛttasya. If one is engaged in this way, viśuddha-cetasaḥ, he becomes gradually cleansed of the dirty things accumulated in the heart. And tad-dharma evātma-ruciḥ. And the saintly person and devotees, what is their business? The business is ātma-ruciḥ, taste for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Prajāyate. Automatically he will develop it.
Therefore every one of us, the members of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, should remain purified always by the regulative principles given, and chanting, so that everyone is Vaiṣṇava and everyone is serving everyone. In this way the association will purify the whole stock of their . . . (indistinct) . . . this is the process.