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can understand the real nature of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. As long as one’s faith is not completely in purified
goodness, the faith is subject to contamination by any of the
modes of material nature. The contaminated modes expand
to the heart. Therefore according to the position of the heart
in contact with a particular mode of material nature, one’s
faith is established. It should be noted that if one’s heart
is in the mode of goodness his faith is also in the mode of
goodness.”

By the process of Krishna consciousness a person is raised
from the lower modes of material nature (ignorance and
passion) to the mode of goodness. From the mode of
goodness one can be raised to pure goodness, suddha
sattva (transcendental state), where the action of the
modes of material nature no longer affect the person. It is
only in this state that one can actually perceive the truth
correctly.

Bhaktivinoda Thakur makes the point, “The unalloyed
spirit is a purely transcendental principle. When they
remain in their characteristic nature, all of them will
provide the same answer to a given question.”

In contact with the material world the pure soul becomes
influenced by the modes of nature and the objects of the
senses. Due to this attachment one formulates a variety of

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