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Bhagavad-णोंवे As It ls
[Ch. 14]
gold. He takes everyone as his dear friend who helps him in his execution of Krşna consciousness, and he does not hate his so-called enemy. He is equally disposed and sees everything on an equal level because he knows perfectly well that he has nothing to do with material existence. Social and political issues do not affect him because he knows the situation of temporary upheavals and disturbances. He does not attempt anything for his own sake. He can attempt anything for Krşna, but for his personal self he does not attain anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcendentally situated.
TEXT 26
मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते । स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥२६॥
māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
mām —unto Me;  ca —also;  yaḥ —person;  avyabhicāreṇa —without fail;  bhakti-yogena —by devotional service;  sevate —renders service;  saḥ —he;  guṇān —all the modes of material nature;  samatītya —transcending;  etān —all this;  brahma-bhūyāya —to be elevated on the Brahman platform;  kalpate —is considered.
TRANSLATION
One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.
PURPORT
This verse is a reply to Arjuna’s third question: What is the means of attaining to the transcendental position? As explained before, the material world is acting under the spell of the modes of material nature. One should not be disturbed by the activities of the modes of nature;