An interesting apparent contradiction

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>>One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material

>>nature... is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness.

 

"By the grace of Kuntidevi we can understand that Krsna, Vasudeva,

is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The word vasudeva also indicates

that the Lord is understood when one comes to the platform of pure

goodness, which is also called vasudeva, or visuddha-sattva. Sattvam

visuddham vasudeva-sabditam (SB. 4.3.23). To understand the Supreme

Lord, we must first come to the platform of sattva, goodness, but

goodness here in the material world is sometimes contaminated by the

lower qualities ignorance and passion. By hearing about Krsna, however,

one comes to the platform of pure goodness." -TQK, ch.4

 

Pure goodness is goodness without a taint of false ego, a state of existence

in which all of one's activities are aimed at the Supreme.

 

The false ego, born of the mode of ignorance, is the ultimate problem of the

living entity, the original contaminant of the mode of goodness, tainting

the mode of goodness with the lower modes of nature.

 

Mode of goodness is the mode of Visnu. Our mischievous desires to enjoy this

mode cause the influence of rajas and tamas.

 

In the absence of the false ego, the goodness is free from the influence of

the material nature, and thus:

 

"One who performs his duty without association with the modes of

material nature... is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness."