1372 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 32

and all their planets will be annihilated. They have no information that
eternal, blissful life can be attained.

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ye sva-dharman na duhyanti
dhirah kamartha-hetave

nihsanga nyasta-karmanah
prasantah Suddha-cetasah

ye—those who; sva-dharman—their own occupational duties; na—do not;
duhyanti— take advantage of;dhirah— intelligent; kama—sense gratification:
artha—economic development; hetave—for the sake of; nihsangah—free
from material attachment; nyasta—given up; karmanah—fruitive activities;
prasantah—satisfied; suddha-cetasah—of purified consciousness.

TRANSLATION

Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are
completely satisfied in Krsna consciousness. Freed from the modes of
material nature, they do not act for sense gratification, but, since they are
situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to
act.

PURPORT

The first-class example of this type of man is Arjuna. Arjuna was a
ksatriya, and his occupational duty was to fight. Generally, kings fight to
extend their kingdoms, which they rule for sense gratification. But as far as
Arjuna is concerned, he declined to fight for his own sense gratification.
He said that although he could get akingdom by fighting with his relatives,
he did not want to fight with them. But when he was ordered by Krsna and
convinced by the teachings of Bhagavad-gita that his duty was to satisfy
Krsna, then he fought. Thus he fought not for his sense gratification, but
for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Persons who work at their prescribed duties, not for sense gratification
but for gratification of the Supreme Lord, are called nihsanga, freed from
the influence of the modes of material nature. Nyasta-karmanah indicates
that the results of their activities are given to the Supreme Personality of
