850 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 21

TEXT 31

TNA
Taaarad ad fia |
aq: faolarastadt adi
Ta TelyBlataaa ata 32H

yat-pada-sevabhirucis tapasvinam
asesa-janmopacitam malam dhiyah

sadyah ksinoty anvaham edhati sati
yatha padangustha-vinihsrta sarit

yat-pada—whose lotus feet; seva—service; abhirucih—inclination; tapas-
vinam—persons undergoing severe penances; aSesa—innumerable; janma—
birth; upacitam—acquire; malam—dirtiness; dhiyah—mind; sadyah—im-
mediately; ksinoti—destroys; anvaham—day after day; edhatt—increasing;
sati—being; yathad—as; paddigustha—the toes of His lotus feet; vinihsrta—
emanating from; sarit— water.

TRANSLATION

By the inclination to serve the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, suffering humanity can immediately cleanse the dirt which
has accumulated in their minds during innumerable births. Like the Ganges
water which emanates from the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, such a
process immediately cleanses the mind, and thus spiritual or Krgna con-
sciousness gradually increases.

PURPORT

In India, one can actually see that a person who takes a bath in the
Ganges waters daily is almost free from all kinds of diseases. A very
respectable brahmana in Calcutta never took a doctor’s medicine. Even
though he sometimes felt sick, he would not accept medicine from the
physician but would simply drink Ganges water, and he was always cured
within a very short time. The glories of Ganges water are known to Indians
and to ourselves also. The River Ganges flows by Calcutta. Sometimes
within the water, there are many stools and other dirty things which are
washed away from neighboring mills and factories, but still thousands of
men take baths in the Ganges water, and they are very healthy as well
as spiritually inclined. That is the effect of Ganges water. The Ganges is
glorified because it emanates from the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord.
