136 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 2
activities by opening hospitals and schools or performing other activities
for the benefit of the public. Sometimes they participate in politics, al-
though still falsely declaring themselves sannydsis, members of the
renounced order. The perfect conclusion, however, is that if one actually
desires to get out of the material world, he must take to devotional ser-
vice, which begins with Sravanam kirtanam visnoh; chanting and hear-
ing the glories of the Lord. The Krsna consciousness movement has
actually proved this. In the Western countries, many young boys who
were addicted to drugs and who had many other bad habits, which they
could not give up, abandoned all those propensities and very seriously
engaged in chanting the glories of the Lord as soon as they joined the
Krsna consciousness movement. In other words, this process is the
perfect method of atonement for actions performed in rajah and tamah
(passion and ignorance). As stated in Srimad-Bhaégavatam (1.2.19):
tada rajas-tamo-bhavah
kama-lobhadayas ca ye
ceta etair anaviddham
sthitam sattve prasidati
As a result of rajah and tamah, one becomes increasingly lusty and
greedy, but when one takes to the process of chanting and hearing, one
comes to the platform of goodness and becomes happy. As he advances in
devotional service, all his doubts are completely eradicated (bhidyate
hrdaya-granthis chidyante sarva-sarnsayah). Thus the knot of his desire
for fruitive activities is cut to pieces.
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TTTARS AAT egeas Aalst lec
ya etam paramam guhyam
itihdsam aghdpaham
