Text 6] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1373
Godhead. Such persons appear to be acting on the platform
of their respective duties, but such activities are not performed for
personal sense gratification; rather, they are performed for the Supreme
Person. Such devotees are called prasdntah, which means completely
satisfied. Suddha-cetasah means Krsna conscious; their consciousness has
become purified. In unpurified consciousness one thinks of himself as the
Lord of the universe, but in purified consciousness one thinks himself the
eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Putting oneself in
that position of eternal servitorship to the Supreme Lord and working for
Him perpetually, one actually becomes completely satisfied. As long as
one works for his personal sense gratification, he will always be full of
anxiety. That is the difference between ordinary consciousness and Krsna
consciousness.
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nivrtti-dharma-nirata
nirmama nirahankrtah
sva-dharmaptena sattvena
pariguddhena cetasa

nivrtti-dharma—in religious activities for detachment; niratah— constantly
engaged; nirmamah—without asense of proprietorship; nirahankrtah—with-
out false egoism; sva-dharma—by one’s own occupational duties; aptena—
executed; sattvena—by goodness; parisuddhena—completely purified;
cetasa— by consciousness.

TRANSLATION

By executing one’s occupational duties, acting with detachment and
without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one’s
constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness,
and by thus executing so-called material duties he can easily enter into the
kingdom of God.

PURPORT

Here the word niovrtti-dharma-niratah means constantly engaging in
executing religious activities for detachment. There are two kinds of
religious performances. One is called pravrtti-dharma, which means the
religious activities performed by the grhamedhis for elevation to higher
