So, in the teachings of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He said that in the Śikṣāṣṭakam, we should take to chanting and we should purify the heart. And He said also that it avails us to all good fortune—who would like the white lotus of good fortune to appear in his or her heart or life? And this is something Prabhupāda mentions in the story of the Guṇḍīcā-mārjana. And that is that not only does one have to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, but one also has to be careful to avoid the ten offenses.

And he says that when the heart becomes clean, then it becomes a proper altar on which one can install the Deity of Kṛṣṇa. So you can imagine that our bodies are sacred, they're a tabernacle, and in that tabernacle—a tabernacle is a place where the essence, God's essence, is installed, and it's also portable—if one can cleanse one's heart and then install the Lord on the altar of one's heart, because it's clean enough and it's properly anointed, then, Prabhupāda says, you can hold a festival and invite everybody and have a prasādam feast, that you've purified the heart and you're you've installed The Lord within your heart.

And in the process of chanting, the white lotus of good fortune opens within one's heart. Puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtana means that everyone's looking for some fortune in this world, but it's fickle. It just comes and goes. But the good fortune that we get from association with The Holy Name is eternal and ever-increasing, and one can experience that...

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