This is called dharmajñāḥ: one who knows what is religion. Dharmajñāḥ. Śraddhayānvitāḥ: and faithful. śraddhayānvitāḥ. If one acquires all these qualities, dharmajñāḥ, and undergoes the—what is called?—the process, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa, then the result will be kṣipanty aghaṁ. Then he becomes completely free from all sinful life. Completely. Kṣipanty aghaṁ. Mahad api: even it is the greatest sinful reaction, it will be counteracted. Mahad api.
How it will be counteracted? Then, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like there are different kinds of dry grasses—some are very strong, some are very weak, some are very small, some are big—but you set fire, then everything is gone, everything. Everything. It doesn't matter, either the strong, small, big. It doesn't matter. You follow this, and your sinful life will be mitigated. Then you become to the purified state, then no more this birth, death, old age and disease. You are elevated to the transcendental platform, and in your pure state. Because you are part and parcel of God, you are as pure as God, but now you are put into this material condition. You are being contaminated in so many ways; therefore you are suffering, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). And if you want to stop this, then you have to adopt this process. And then Śukadeva Goswāmī says:
- kecit kevalayā bhaktyā
- vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ
- aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena
- nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ
- (SB 6.1.15)
And somebody, somebody is going step by step this, by this process. And somebody, he recommends . . . kecit. Kecit means "somebody." Kevalayā bhaktyā: simply by discharging pure devotional service, kevalayā bhaktyā. Who can do so? Vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ: who has become devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ. Aghaṁ dhunvanti: he also cleanses all sinful reaction. How? Totally. How? No, nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ. Just like fog. In the fog you are in darkness; you cannot see anything. It is very difficult. There is some accident, in water, in air; the fog is very dangerous. But if somehow or other sun rises, immediately fog disappears. So Kṛṣṇa is sun:
- kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra
- yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa
- (CC Madhya 22.31)
We have given this that, "Godhead is light and māyā is nescience. Where there is light, sunshine, there is no māyā." Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ (BG 7.14).