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King Yayāti Achieves Liberation
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Because we are in a material condition, we are contaminated either by  sattva-guṇa , by  rajo-guṇa  or by  tamo-guṇa . Even if one becomes a qualified  brāhmaṇa  in the mode of goodness ( sattva-guṇa ), he is still materially contaminated. One must come to the platform of  śuddha-sattva , transcending the  sattva-guṇa . Then one is  vidhuta-triliṇga , cleansed of the contamination caused by the three modes of material nature. This is possible by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa. As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (1.2.17):
śrṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ hṛdy antaḥ-stho hy abhadrāṇi vidhunoti suhṛt-satām
“Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.” A person trying to be perfectly Kṛṣṇa conscious by hearing the words of Kṛṣṇa from  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  or  Bhagavad-gītā  certainly has all the dirty things cleansed from the core of his heart. Caitanya Mahāprabhu also says,  ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam : the process of hearing and chanting the glories of the Supreme Lord washes away the dirty things accumulated in the core of the heart. As soon as one is freed from all the dirt of material contamination, as Mahārāja Yayāti was, one’s original position as an associate of the Lord is revealed. This is called  svarūpa-siddhi , or personal perfection.
TEXT 26
श्रुत्वा गाथां देवयानी मेने प्रस्तोभमात्मनः । स्त्रीपुंसोः स्नेहवैक्रन्यात् परिहासमिवेरितम् ॥२६॥
śrutvā gāthāṁ devayānī mene prastobham ātmanaḥ strī-puṁsoḥ sneha-vaiklavyāt parihāsam iveritam