Becoming Pure
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ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:
tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam
Sattva  means existence. So if you don't purify your existence, then you will have to change your body. From this body to that. Sometimes it may be higher, sometimes lower. For example, if you don't cure a disease, it can put you into trouble in so many ways. Similarly, if you don't purify your existence, then you will have to transmigrate from one body to another. There are very subtle laws of nature. Now there is no guarantee that you will get a very comfortable body or an American body. Therefore, it is essential for the human being to purify his existence. Unless you purify your existence, you will hanker after happiness but will not always be happy.
BOB:  When I go to my job in New York, I hope I'll become pure, but I'm sure that I won't become as pure as your devotees here. I—I don't see myself doing that.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You can do as they are doing. They were not pure in the beginning; now they are pure. Similarly, you can become pure. For example, in your childhood you were not educated—but now you are educated.
BOB:  So, what are the things that I may do? When I go back, I must—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  When do you go back?
BOB:  I'll be going back to Chaibasa to do my work there, and . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  What is there in Chaibasa?
BOB:  That is where I do my teaching. I live there.