Text 12] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 93

PURPORT

The conditioned soul has friends and enemies. He is affected by the
good qualities and the faults of his position. The Supreme Lord,
however, is always transcendental. Because He is the iSvara, the supreme
controller, He is not affected by duality. It may therefore be said that He
sits in the core of everyone’s heart as the neutral witness of the causes
and effects of one’s activities, good and bad. We should also understand
that uddsina, neutral, does not mean that He takes no action. Rather, it
means that He is not personally affected. For example, a court judge is
neutral when two opposing parties appear before him, but he still takes
action as the case warrants. To become completely neutral, indifferent, to
material activities, we should simply seek shelter at the lotus feet of the
supreme neutral person.

Maharaja Citraketu was advised that remaining neutral in such trying
circumstances as the death of one’s son is impossible. Nevertheless, since
the Lord knows how to adjust everything, the best course is to depend
upon Him and do one’s duty in devotional service to the Lord. In all
circumstances, one should be undisturbed by duality. As stated in

Bhagavad-gita (2.47):

karmany evadhikaras te
m4 phalesu kadaécana
ma karma-phala-hetur bhir

m4 te sarigo ’stv akarmani

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not en-
titled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of
the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your
duty.”” One should execute one’s devotional duty, and for the results of
one’s actions one should depend upon the Supreme Personality of

Godhead.
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