BHAGAVAD-GITA 5:12

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 5:12

 

yuktah karma-phalam tyaktva

santim apnoti naisthikim

ayuktah kama-karena

phale sakto nibadhyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yuktah--one who is engaged in devotional service; karma-phalam--the

results of all activities; tyaktva--giving up; santimn--perfect peace;

apnoti--achieves; naisthikim--unflinching; ayuktah--one who is not in

Krsna consciousness; kama-karena--for enjoying the result of work;

phale--in the result; saktah--attached; nibadhyate--becomes entangled.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he

offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not

in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor,

becomes entangled.

 

PURPORT

 

The difference between a person in Krsna consciousness and a person in

bodily consciousness is that the former is attached to Krsna whereas

the latter is attached to the results of his activities. The person

who is attached to Krsna and works for Him only is certainly a

liberated person, and he has no anxiety over the results of his work.

In the Bhagavatam, the cause of anxiety over the result of an activity

is explained as being one's functioning in the conception of duality,

that is, without knowledge of the Absolute Truth. Krsna is the Supreme

Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead. In Krsna consciousness,

there is no duality. All that exists is a product of Krsna's energy,

and Krsna is all good. Therefore, activities in Krsna consciousness

are on the absolute plane; they are transcendental and have no

material effect. One is therefore filled with peace in Krsna

consciousness. But one who is entangled in profit calculation for

sense gratification cannot have that peace. This is the secret of

Krsna consciousness--realization that there is no existence besides

Krsna is the platform of peace and fearlessness.

 

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