So, through the godliness in his heart, everyone must be a
purifying agent. God is on the throne of the heart, and from there He
will emanate such a fine ray which will purify not only that person’s
heart, but also the environment. ‘Vaisnava’ means a purifying agent
who emanates goodness, absolute goodness, everywhere—through his
movements, his words, his actions, everything: deed, thought and
word, kåya, mana, våkya. A Vaisnava is an agent of auspiciousness; te
vaisnavah bhuvanamåsu pavitrayanti. There are so many Vaisnavas, and
by their chanting the Holy Name, by all their practices and by their
whole lives, they are like so many purifying agents.
By proper knowledge, proper dealings and proper conduct they set
everything in it’s proper position and create adjustment in the domain
of maladjustment. This world is maladjusted, and the balancing
agents, the unifying factors, are the Vaisnavas. Just as there is a germ,
a virus which spreads a particular contagious disease, so there must be
the opposite of that, something which emanates only a pure and
healthy atmosphere, and that is the Vaisnava.
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