Acting in Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa
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BOB:  What about a person who does—tries to do—what is right and is very conscientious instead of being unconscious about the things he does? Like the servant who is very honest to his master but knows that if he were not honest he would not be caught. If he stays honest anyway . . . a person like that? Is that some kind of good  karma ?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, to become honest is also good  karma . How to become a good man is described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  very elaborately.
daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā
So if you become qualified with the  daivī sampad  (transcendental qualities), then,  vimokṣāya —you will be liberated. And,  nibandhāyāsurī —if you are qualified with the demoniac qualifications, then you will be more and more entangled. Unfortunately the modern civilization does not know what is liberation and what is entanglement. They are so much ignorant; they do not know. Suppose if I ask you what you mean by liberation, can you answer? [ No answer. ] And if I ask you what you mean by entanglement, can you answer? [ Again no answer. ] These words are there in the Vedic literature—liberation and entanglement—but, at the present moment, people do not even know what is liberation and what is entanglement. They are so ignorant and foolish, and still they are proud of their advancement in knowledge. Can you answer what is liberation? You are a professor, teacher, but if I ask you, can you explain what is liberation?
BOB:  Not adequately because if I could explain, then I would become liberated very fast.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  But if you do not know what is