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| Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 4.23
jnanavasthita-cetasah
yajnayacaratah karma
SYNONYMS
gata-sangasya -- of one unattached to the modes of material nature; muktasya -- of the liberated; jnana-avasthita -- situated in transcendence; cetasah -- whose wisdom; yajnaya -- for the sake of Yajna (Krsna); acaratah -- acting; karma -- work; samagram -- in total; praviliyate -- merges entirely.
TRANSLATION
The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence.
PURPORT
Becoming fully Krsna conscious, one is freed from all dualities and thus is free from the contaminations of the material modes. He can become liberated because he knows his constitutional position in relationship with Krsna, and thus his mind cannot be drawn from Krsna consciousness. Consequently, whatever he does, he does for Krsna, who is the primeval Visnu. Therefore, all his works are technically sacrifices because sacrifice aims at satisfying the Supreme Person, Visnu, Krsna. The resultant reactions to all such work certainly merge into transcendence, and one does not suffer material effects.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness