Action in Knowledge of Krsna 105

If we leave this material body in Krsna conscious-
ness, we will no longer have to return to the material
world. The point is to avoid this material existence
altogether. It is not a question of improving our
condition in the material world. In prison aman may
want to improve his condition to become a first
class prisoner, and the government may give him
A-status, but no sane man will become satisfied by
becoming an A-class prisoner. He should desire to
get out of the prison altogether. In the material
world some of us are A-class, B-class or C-class
prisoners, but in any case we are all prisoners. Real
knowledge does not consist in simply getting an MA
or PhD but in understanding these basic problems of
existence.

yasya sarve samarambhah
kama-sankalpa-varjitah

jianagni-dagdha-karmanam
tam ahuh panditam budhah

“One is understood to be in full knowledge whose
every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification.
He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive
action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.”
(Bg. 4.19)

The word panditam means learned, and budhah
means well-versed. In the Tenth Chapter we also find
the word budhah in the verse budha bhavasaman-
vitah (Bg. 10.8). According to Bhagavad-gita, one
may not be a learned man just because he has re-
ceived alot of education from a university. Bhagavad-
