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7/ Salvation of Trnavarta

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is always full of six
opulences—namely complete wealth, complete strength, complete fame,
complete knowledge, complete beauty and complete renunciation. The
Lord appears in different complete, eternal forms of incarnation. The
conditioned soul has immense opportunity to hear about the transcenden-
tal activities of the Lord in these different incarnations. In the Bhagavad-
gita it is said, janma karma ca me divyam. The pastimes and activities of
the Lord are not material; they are beyond the material conception. But
the conditioned soul can benefit by hearing such uncommon activities.
Hearing is an opportunity to associate with the Lord; to hear His activities
is to evolve to the transcendental nature—simply by hearing. The con-
ditioned soul has a natural aptitude to hear something about other
conditioned souls in the form of fiction, drama and novel. That inclination
to hear something about others may be utilized in hearing the pastimes of
the Lord. Then one can immediately evolve to his transcendental nature.
Krsna’s pastimes are not only beautiful; they are also very pleasing to the
mind.

If someone takes advantage of hearing the pastimes of the Lord, the
material contamination of dust, accumulated in the heart due to long
association with material nature, can be immediately cleansed. Lord
Caitanya also instructed that simply by hearing the transcendental name
of Lord Krsna, one can cleanse the heart of all material contamination.
There are different processes for self-realization, but this process of
devotional service—of which hearing is the most important function—when
adopted by any conditioned soul, will automatically cleanse him of the
material contamination and enable him to realize his real constitutional
position. Conditional life is due to this contamination only, and as soon as
it is cleared off, then naturally the dormant function of the living entity—
rendering service to the Lord—awakens. By developing his eternal relation-

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