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Karma-yoga—Action in Krṣṇa Consciousness
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TEXT 11
कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि । योगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वात्मशुद्धये ॥११॥
kāyena manasā buddhyā  
 kevalair indriyair api  
 yoginaḥ karma kurvanti  
 saṅgaṁ tyaktvātma-śuddhaye
kāyena —with the body;  manasā —with the mind;  buddhyā —with the intelligence;  kevalaiḥ —purified;  indriyaiḥ —with the senses;  api —even with;  yoginaḥ —the Kṛṣṇa conscious persons;  karma —actions;  kurvanti —they act;  saṅgam —attachment;  tyaktvā —giving up;  ātma —self;  śuddhaye —for the purpose of purification.
TRANSLATION
The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence, and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.
PURPORT
By acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the satisfaction of the senses of Kṛṣṇa, any action, whether of the body, mind, intelligence or even of the senses, is purified of material contamination. There are no material reactions resulting from the activities of a Kṛṣṇa conscious person. Therefore, purified activities, which are generally called  sadācāra , can be easily performed by acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī in his  Bhaktirasāmṛta-sindhu  describes this as follows:
İhā yasya harer dāsye karmaņā manasā girā nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu jīvanmuktaḥ sa ucyate
A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness (or, in other words, in the service of Kṛṣṇa) with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person even within the material world, although he may be engaged in many so-called material activities. He has no false ego, nor does he believe that he is this material body, nor that he possesses the body. He knows that he is