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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 24]
TEXT 62
यस्मिन् सत्कर्णपीयुषे यशस्तीर्थवरे सकृत् । 
    श्रोत्राञ्जलिरुपस्पृश्य धुनुते कर्मवासनाम् ॥६२॥
yasmin sat-karṇa-pīyuṣe 
    yaśas-tīrtha-vare sakṛt 
    śrotrāñjalir upaspṛśya 
    dhunute karma-vāsanām
yasmin —in the history of the transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa upon the surface of the earth;  sat-karṇa-pīyuṣe —who pleases the demands of the transcendental, purified ears;  yaśaḥ-tīrtha-vare —keeping oneself in the best of holy places by hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord;  sakṛt —once only, immediately;  śrotra-añjaliḥ —in the form of hearing the transcendental message;  upaspṛśya —touching (exactly like the water of the Ganges);  dhunute —destroys;  karma-vāsanām —the strong desire for fruitive activities.
TRANSLATION
Simply by receiving the glories of the Lord through purified transcendental ears, the devotees of the Lord are immediately freed from strong material desires and engagement in fruitive activities.
PURPORT
When the devotees aurally receive the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as enacted in  Bhagavad-gītā  and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , they immediately achieve a transcendental vision in which they are no longer interested in materialistic activities. Thus they achieve freedom from the material world. For sense gratification practically everyone is engaged in materialistic activities, which prolong the process of  janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi —birth, death, old age and disease—but the devotee, simply by hearing the message of  Bhagavad-gītā  and further relishing the narrations of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , becomes so pure that he no longer takes interest in materialistic activities. At the moment, devotees in the Western countries are being attracted by Kṛṣṇa consciousness