Text 51] Prthu Maharaja’s Meeting with the Four Kumaras 959
actually is. The first requirement for the proper execution of karma-yoga
is given herein. Phalam brahmani sannyasya (or vinyasya): One must give
the fruits of his activities to the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman, Krsna.
By doing so, one actually situates himself in the renounced order of life,
sannyasa. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, giving up the fruits of one’s activities
to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is called sannyasa. Although he
was living as a householder, Prthu Maharaja was actually in the renounced
order of life, sannyasa. This will be clearer in the following verses.

The word nirvisangah (uncontaminated) is very significant because
Maharaja Prthu was not attached to the results of his activities. In this
material world a person is always thinking of the proprietorship of every-
thing he accumulates or works for. When the fruits of one’s activities are
rendered to the service of the Lord, one is actually practicing karma-yoga.
Anyone can practice karma-yoga, but it is especially easy for the house-
holder who can install the Deity of the Lord in the home and worship Him
according to the methods of bhakti-yoga. This method includes nine
items: hearing, chanting, remembering, serving, worshiping the Deity,
praying, carrying out orders, serving Krsna as friend and sacrificing every-
thing for Him. These methods of karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga are being
broadcast all over the world by the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness. Anyone can learn these methods simply by following the
examples of the members of the Society.

In one’s home or a temple, the Deity is considered the proprietor of
everything, and everyone is considered the Deity’s eternal servant. The
Lord is transcendental, for He is not part of this material creation. The
words prakrteh param are used in this verse because everything within
this material world is created by the external material energy of the Lord,
but the Lord Himself is not a creation of this material energy. The Lord is
the supreme superintendent of all material creations, as confirmed in
Bhagavad-gita:

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyale sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
Jagad viparivartate
“This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, pro-
ducing all the moving and unmoving beings, and by its rule this manifesta-
tion is created and annihilated again and again.” (Bg. 9.10)
