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The Activities of Mahārāja Priyavrata
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This is described in  Bhagavad-gītā  (3.9).  Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ : if one performs activities for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality, the  yajña-puruṣa , his work does not produce reactions, whereas  karmīs , who act for themselves, are bound by the reactions of their work. A liberated person, therefore, does not think about whatever he has ignorantly done in the past; instead, he acts in such a way that he will not produce another body by fruitive activities. As clearly mentioned in  Bhagavad-gītā :
mām ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
“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.” (Bg. 14.26) Regardless of what we have done in our past lives, if we engage ourselves in unalloyed devotional service to the Lord in this life, we will always be situated in the  brahma-bhūta  (liberated) state, free from reactions, and will not be obliged to accept another material body.  Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna  (Bg. 4.9). After giving up the body, one who has acted in that way does not accept another material body, but instead goes back home, back to Godhead.
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भयं प्रमत्तस्य वनेष्वपि स्याद्
यतः स आस्ते सहषटसपत्नः ।
जितेन्द्रियस्यात्मरतेर्बुधस्य
गृहाश्रमः किं नु करोत्यवद्यम् ॥१७॥
bhayaṁ pramattasya vaneṣv api syād yataḥ sa āste saha-ṣaṭ-sapatnaḥ jitendriyasyātma-rater budhasya gṛhāśramaḥ kiṁ nu karoty avadyam