996 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 23

(manah) is also understood to have a controlling deity or demigod. In this
way the total mind, namely the material mind controlled by material
demigods, was amalgamated with the senses. The senses, in turn, were
amalgamated with the sense objects. The sense objects are forms, tastes,
smells, sounds, etc. Sound is the ultimate source of the sense objects. The
mind was attracted by the senses and the senses by the sense objects, and
all of them were ultimately amalgamated in the sky. The creation is so
arranged that cause and effect follow one: after the other. The merging
process involves amalgamating the effect with the original cause. Since the
ultimate cause in the material world is the mahat-tattva, everything was
gradually wound up and amalgamated with the mahat-tattva. This may be
compared to siinyavada, or voidism, in that this is the process for cleansing
the real spiritual mind, or consciousness.

When the mind is completely washed of all material contamination, the
pure consciousness acts. The sound vibration from the spiritual sky can
automatically cleanse all material contaminations, as confirmed by Caitanya
Mahaprabhu: ceto-darpana-marjanam. We need only take the advice of Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and chant the Hare Krsna mantra to cleanse the
mind of all material contamination, and this may be considered the sum-
mary of this difficult verse. As soon as the whole material contamination
is washed away by this process of chanting, all desires and reactions to
material activities become immediately vanquished, and real life, peaceful
existence, begins. In this age of Kali it is very difficult to adopt the yogic
process mentioned in this verse. Unless one is very expert in such yoga,
the best course is to adopt the ways and means of Lord Caitanya Maha-
prabhu, sri-krsna-sankirtanam. Thus one can gloriously become freed from
all material contamination by the simple process of chanting Hare Krsna,
Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama
Rama, Hare Hare. Just as life in this material world has its beginning in
material sound, similarly a spiritual life has its beginning in this spiritual
sound vibration.

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tam sarva-guna-vinyasam
jive mayamaye nyadhat
