8.2 As you are supremely pure, so your manifestations are supremely purifying

dhīra haiyā śune jadi 

kāne bār bār

If they hear your message again and again,

They will rise above illusion and pain.

My dear Lord, faith is seen through actions. If I claim faith in medicine but distrust every medicine I can access, that faith becomes impotent; I will remain sick. Similarly, O Lord, if I believe in your supreme purity but doubt the purifying potency of your manifestations placed near me, that faith won’t bring me closer to you.

O ever-accessible Lord, Srila Prabhupada reveals his holistic faith in you by expressing his faith in your manifestation as the Srimad-Bhagavatam. It carries, even embodies, your omnipotent purity and can therefore purify anyone who regularly listens to it. Just as Srila Prabhupada trusted the Bhagavatam, let me too trust your living word.

O merciful Lord, let me hear with a receptive heart—or at least an open mind—the philosophy and pastimes that demonstrate the supreme truth of your unfailing, unflinching love for us. Such hearing can reassure my fearful mind, reinforce my weak intelligence, and reawaken my dormant soul—and through all these, redirect my love to you.

Bless me, my beloved Lord, with a drop of Srila Prabhupada’s faith in the transformative potency of your message, and let me become a receiver and transmitter of this message so that my heart—and the hearts around me—are transformed.