Spiritualরজস তেমা হেত তেব পাইেব িনѷার দেয়র অভϒ সেত ঘুিচেব তাহার (১০)
rajas tamo ha’ te tabe pāibe nistāra hṛdayera abhadra sate ghucibe tāhāra rajaḥ—the mode of passion; tamaḥ—the mode of ignorance; ha’te— from; tabe—then; pāibe—will attain; nistāra—deliverance; hṛdayera—of the heart; abhadra—inauspicious; saba—all; ghucibe— will be removed; tāhāra—their.
He will become liberated from the influence of the modes of ignorance and passion, and thus all inauspicious things accumulated in the core of the heart will disappear.
Commentary The miraculous effect of hearing about the Lord is described here. When the transcendental sound of Kṛṣṇa’s name, form, qualities, and pastimes enters the ear and descends into the heart, the influence of passion and ignorance subsides, and the heart becomes cleansed of all material contamination. The word abhadra, translated here as “inauspicious,” also appears in the first of the five previously quoted verses, where Śrīla Prabhupāda translates it as “the desire to enjoy matter.” The inclination to enjoy material things is considered inauspicious because, as long as such desire dominates the heart, one continues to receive material bodies, one after another, simply to fulfill those desires. Therefore, Ṛṣabhadeva warns his sons that as long as the heart is impure, consciousness remains unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in material activities, he must accept a material body, which—although temporary—is a source of suffering. The only aim of human life should be emancipation from the clutches of māyā and all material activities, because as long as one remains in the material world, one must undergo the miseries of repeated birth, death, old age, and disease. Ṛṣabhadeva tells his sons that, in his opinion, to act in such a way as to prolong one’s journey through material existence is a sign that one is not very intelligent. During his first visit to Boston, Prabhupāda witnessed exactly that: a population absorbed in material activities, overcome by the modes of passion and ignorance, and completely oblivious to any kind of spiritual aspiration. He knew that the only remedy was to expose the heart to the purifying potency of transcendental sound, but how to get such materialistic people interested in hearing? That was the crux of the matter, and therefore Śrīla Prabhupāda again turned to the Lord, expressing his anxious desire to accomplish his mission and, to this end, praying for the benediction to be empowered.