When Our Heart Is Cleansed - Prabhupada 0478
730406 - Lecture SB 02.01.01-2 - New York
The heart is not cleansed. So this chanting will help us to cleanse the heart.
- śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
- puṇya-śravaṇa kīrtanaḥ
- hṛdy antaḥ stho abhadrāṇi
- vidhunoti suhṛt satām
- (SB 1.2.17)
Chanting is so nice that as soon as you take to chanting, or hear about Kṛṣṇa—the chanting is also hearing about Kṛṣṇa—so immediately the cleansing process begins, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ (CC Antya 20.12). And as soon as our heart is cleansed, bhava-mahā-davāgni-nirvāpaṇam, then we become freed from the blazing fire of this material existence.