182 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 5
One should perform activities only for the benefit of the soul; any other
activity should be given up. When a person is situated in this way, he is
said to be desireless. Actually a living entity cannot be totally desireless,
but when he desires the benefit of the soul and nothing else, he is said to
be desireless.

Spiritual knowledge is jidna-vijnana-samanvitam. When one is fully
equipped with jriana and vijndna, he is perfect. Jidna means that one
understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, to be the
Supreme Being. Vijndna refers to the activities that liberate one from the
ignorance of material existence. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam
(2.9.31): jndnarh parama-guhyam me yad_ vijridna-samanvitam.
Knowledge of the Supreme Lord is very confidential, and the supreme
knowledge by which one understands Him furthers the liberation of all
living entities. This knowledge is vijidna. As confirmed in Bhagavad-
gita (4.9):

Janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and ac-
tivities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this
material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”
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HETATSSATTATMAAT: |
gtd aA ATTRA
TRAUMA  FRTIT Uv
karmasayam hrdaya-granthi-bandham
avidyayasaditam apramattah
anena yogena yathopadesam
samyag vyapohyoparameta yogat
