यत्सङ्गलब्धं निजवीर्यवैभवं तीर्थं मुहु: संस्पृशतां हि मानसम् । हरत्यजोऽन्त: श्रुतिभिर्गतोऽङ्गजं को वै न सेवेत मुकुन्दविक्रमम् ॥ ११ ॥
yat-sanga-labdham nija-virya-vaibhavam tirtham muhuh samsprsatam hi manasam haraty ajo ’ntah srutibhir gato ’ngajam ko vai na seveta mukunda-vikramam
- yat
- of whom (the devotees)
- sanga-labdham
- achieved by the association
- nija-virya-vaibhavam
- whose influence is uncommon
- tirtham
- holy places like the Ganges
- muhuh
- repeatedly
- samsprsatam
- of those touching
- hi
- certainly
- manasam
- the dirty things in the mind
- harati
- vanquishes
- ajah
- the supreme unborn one
- antah
- in the core of the heart
- srutibhih
- by the ears
- gatah
- entered
- anga-jam
- dirty things or infections of the body
- kah
- who
- vai
- indeed
- na
- not
- seveta
- would serve
- mukunda-vikramam
- the glorious activities of Mukunda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful activities and soon come to understand them. The activities of Mukunda are so potent that simply by hearing of them one immediately associates with the Lord. For a person who constantly and very eagerly hears narrations of the Lord’s powerful activities, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead in the form of sound vibrations, enters within his heart and cleanses it of all contamination. On the other hand, although bathing in the Ganges diminishes bodily contaminations and infections, this process and the process of visiting holy places can cleanse the heart only after a long time. Therefore who is the sane man who will not associate with devotees to quickly perfect his life?