Text 17] The Activities of Maharaja Priyavrata 33
This is described in Bhagavad-gita (3.9). Yajidrthat karmano ’nyatra
loko *yarn karma-bandhanah: if one performs activities for the satisfac-
tion of the Supreme Personality, the yajna-purusa, his work does not
produce reactions, whereas karmis, who act for themselves, are bound by
the reactions of their work. A liberated person, therefore, does not think
about whatever he has ignorantly done in the past; instead, he acts in
such a way that he will not produce another body by fruitive activities.
As clearly mentioned in Bhagavad-gita:
mam ca yo ’vyabhicdrena
bhakti-yogena sevate
sa gundn samatityaitan
brahma-bhiyaya kalpate
“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in
any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and
thus comes to the level of Brahman.” (Bg. 14.26) Regardless of what we
have done in our past lives, if we engage ourselves in unalloyed devo-
tional service to the Lord in this life, we will always be situated in the
brahma-bhiita (liberated) state, free from reactions, and will not be
obliged to accept another material body. Tyaktvad deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna (Bg. 4.9). After giving up the body, one who has
acted in that way does not accept another material body, but instead goes
back home, back to Godhead.
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yatah sa dste saha-sat-sapatnah
jitendriyasydtma-rater budhasya
grhasramah kim nu karoty avadyam
