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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 3]
from one's heart. One cannot achieve such purification merely by observing vows and performing Vedic ritualistic ceremonies.
PURPORT
One may very easily practice chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord and thus become ecstatic in spiritual life.  Padma Purāṇa  states:
nāmāparādha-yuktānāṁ nāmāny eva haranty agham aviśrānti-prayuktāni tāny evārtha-karāṇi ca
Even if one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  offensively, one can avoid offenses by continuously chanting without deviation. One who becomes accustomed to this practice will always remain in a pure transcendental position, untouchable by sinful reactions. Śukadeva Gosvāmī especially requested King Parikṣit to note this fact very carefully. There is no profit, however, in executing the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. By performing such activities one may go to the higher planetary systems, but as stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.21),  kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśanti : when the period of one's enjoyment in the heavenly planets is terminated because of the limited extent of the results of one's pious activities, one must return to earth. Thus there is no use in endeavoring to travel up and down in the universe. It is better to chant the holy name of the Lord so that one may become fully purified and eligible to return home, back to Godhead. That is the aim of life, and that is the perfection of life.
TEXT 33
कृष्णार्द्धिपद्मपुलिण् न पुनर्विसृष्ट-
मायागुणेषु रमते वृजिनावहेषु ।
अन्यस्तु कामहत आत्मरजः प्रमाष्टु-
मीहेत कर्म यत एव रजः पुनः स्यात्॥३३॥
kṛṣṇāṅghri-padma-madhu-liṇ na punar viṣṭa- māyā-guṇeṣu ramate vṛjināvaheṣu