Text 38] Ajamila Delivered by the Visnuditas 127
TEXT 38
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mamdéham iti dehadau
hitvamithyartha-dhir matim
dhasye mano bhagavati
Suddham tat-kirtanadibhih
mama—my; aham—]; iti—thus; deha-adau—in the body and things
related to the body; hitui—giving up; amithya—not false; artha—on
values; dhih—with my consciousness; matim—the attitude; dhdsye—|
shall engage; manah—my mind; bhagavati—on the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead; suddham—pure; tat—His name; _ kirtana-
ddibhih—by chanting, hearing and so on.
TRANSLATION
Simply because I chanted the holy name of the Lord in the asso-
ciation of devotees, my heart is now becoming purified. Therefore
I shall not fall victim again to the false lures of material sense gra-
tification. Now that I have become fixed in the Absolute Truth,
henceforward I shall not identify myself with the body. I shall give
up false conceptions of ‘I’ and “‘mine”’ and fix my mind on the
lotus feet of Krsna.
PURPORT
How a living entity becomes a victim of the material condition is
lucidly explained in this verse. The beginning is to misidentify the body
as one’s self. Therefore Bhagavad-gita begins with the spiritual instruc-
tion that one is not the body, but is within the body. This consciousness
can be possible only if one chants the holy name of Krsna, the Hare
Krsna maha-mantra, and always keeps oneself in the association of
devotees. This is the secret of success. Therefore we stress that one
should chant the holy name of the Lord and keep oneself free from the
contaminations of this material world, especially the contaminations of
lusty desires for illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. With
