Acting in Knowledge of Krsna 69

BOB: What about a person who does—tries to do—what 's
right and is very conscientious instead of being unconscio..s
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 per-
son like that? Is that some kind of good karma?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes, to become honest is also good
karma. How to become a good man is described in the
Bhagavad-gita very elaborately.

daivi sampad vimoksaya
nibandhaydsuri mata

So if you become qualified with the daivi sampad (transcen-
dental qualities), then, vimoksaya—you will be liberated.
And, nibandhayasuri—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 pres-
ent 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.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: But if you do not know what is
