BHAGAVAD-GITA 4:19

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 4:19

 

yasya sarve samarambhah

kama-sankalpa- varjitah

jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam

tam ahuh panditam budhah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yasya--one whose; sarve--all sorts of; samarambhah--attempts;

kama--based on desire for sense gratification;

sankalpa--determination; varjitah--are devoid of; jnana--of perfect

knowledge; agni--by the fire; dagdha--burned; karmnanam--whose work;

tam--him; ahuh--declare; panditam--learned; budhah--those who know.

 

TRANSLATION

 

One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is

devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a

worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire

of perfect knowledge.

 

PURPORT

 

Only a person in full knowledge can understand the activities of a

person in Krsna consciousness. Because the person in Krsna

consciousness is devoid of all kinds of sense-gratificatory

propensities, it is to be understood that he has burned up the

reactions of his work by perfect knowledge of his constitutional

position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. He is actually learned who has attained to such perfection of

knowledge. Development of this knowledge of eternal servitorship to

the Lord is compared to fire. Such a fire, once kindled, can burn up

all kinds of reactions to work.

 

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