Saturday, August 1, 2020

GITA SHLOKA 4.18 & 4.19, THE SENSE OF ETERNAL SERVITORSHIP TO KRSNA MAKES ONE IMMUNE TO ALL SORTS OF REACTIONARY ELEMENTS OF WORK (,I.E., HE TRANSCENDS BONDING TO REACTIONS OF ALL KARMA),2nd Aug

GITA SHLOKA 4.18, THE SENSE OF ETERNAL SERVITORSHIP TO KRSNA MAKES ONE IMMUNE TO ALL SORTS OF REACTIONARY ELEMENTS OF WORK (,I.E., HE TRANSCENDS BONDING TO REACTIONS OF ALL KARMA)



TRANSLATION
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the trancendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.

PURPORT
A person acting in Krsna consciousness is naturally free from the bonds of karma.

His activities are all performed for Krsna; therefore he does not enjoy or suffer any of the effects of work.

Consequently he is intelligent in human society, even though he is engaged in all sorts of activities for Krsna.

Akarma means without reaction to work.

The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear, so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Therefore he engages himself in the activities of Krsna consciousness.

Because everything is done for Krsna, he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge of this service.

Those who are engaged in this process are known to be without desire for personal sense gratification.

The sense of eternal servitorship to Krsna makes one immune to all sorts of reactionary elements of work.


Gita shloka 4.19

TRANSLATION

One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is 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 the eternal servitorship of the Lord is compared to fire.

Such a fire, once kindled, can burn up all kinds of reactions to work