34 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 1
omkara. Here it is indicated that the Visnu form is the ultimate goal of
meditation, and as such it is better to concentrate upon the forms of Visnu
than on impersonal omkara, as the latter process is more difficult than the
former.
TEXT 20
Tamera fyé at AIHA: |
TSR Ut Sled Mi Aha ATT URoll
rajas-tamobhyam aksiptam
vimiidham mana atmanah
yacched dharanaya dhiro
hanti ya tat-krtam malam

rajah—passionate modes of nature; tamobhyam—as well as by the
ignorant modes of material nature; aksiptam—agitated ; vimiidham—bewil-
dered; manah—the mind; atmanah—of one’s own; yacchet— get it rectified;
dharanaya—by conception (of Visnu); dhirah—the pacified; hanti— destroys;
ya—all those; tat-krtam—done by them; malam—dirty things.

TRANSLATION
One’s mind is always agitated by the passionate modes of material
nature and bewildered by the ignorant modes of nature. But one can
rectify such conceptions by the relation of Visnu and thus become paci-
fied by cleansing the dirty things created by them.
PURPORT

Persons generally conducted by the modes of passion and the modes of
ignorance cannot be bona fide candidates for being situated in the tran-
scendental stage of God realization. Only the persons conducted under the
modes of goodness can have the knowledge of the Supreme Truth. Effects
of the modes of passion and ignorance are manifested by too much
hankering after wealth and women. And those who are too much after
wealth and women can only rectify their leanings by constant remem-
brance of Visnu in His potential impersonal feature. Generally the imper-
sonalists or monists are influenced by the modes of passion and ignorance.
