86 The Nectar of Instruction

people who are wasting their time simply gratifying their
senses, one may come to the platform of knowledge and
understand higher values of life. Such a person is called a
Jniani. The jridni knows that fruitive activities will bind him
to material existence and cause him to transmigrate from
one kind of body to another. As indicated in Srimad-
Bhagavatam by the term Sarira-bandha (bound to bodily
existence), as long as one maintains any conception of sense
enjoyment, his mind will be absorbed in karma, fruitive ac-
tivity, and this will oblige him to transmigrate from one
body to another.

Thus a jridni is considered superior to a karmi because he
at least refrains from the blind activities of sense enjoyment.
This is the verdict of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
However, although a jfidni may be liberated from the ig-
norance of the karmis, unless he comes to the platform of
devotional service he is still considered to be in ignorance
(avidya). Although one may be accepted as a jridni, or one
advanced in knowledge, his knowledge is considered impure
because he has no information of devotional service and thus
neglects the direct worship of the lotus feet of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.

When a jridni takes to devotional service, he rapidly be-
comes superior to an ordinary jfani. Such an advanced per-
son is described as jfana-vimukta-bhakti-parama. How a
jfiani takes to devotional service is mentioned in Bhagavad-
gita (7.19), wherein Krsna says:

bahiinamm janmanam ante
Jiianavan mam prapadyate
