Text 43] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 133
sometimes degraded, but this is not the goal of life. Rather, the goal of
life is to become free from elevation and degradation and take to Krsna
consciousness. Therefore a saintly person does not discriminate between
that which is supposedly good and supposedly bad; rather, he desires for
everyone to be happy in Krsna consciousness, which is the ultimate goal
of life.
TEXT 43
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vikalpam juhuydc cittau
tari manasy artha-vibhrame
mano vaikdrike hutva
tam maéyayam juhoty anu
vikalpam—discrimination (between good and bad, one person and
another, one nation and another, and all similar discrimination);
Juhuyaét—one should offer as oblations; cittau—in the fire of conscious-
ness; ftam—that consciousness; manasi—in the mind; artha-
vibhrame—the root of all acceptance and rejection; manah—that mind;
vaikarike—in false ego, identification of oneself with matter; hutud—
offering as oblations; tam—this false ego; mayayam—in the total ma-
terial energy; juhoti—offers as oblations; anu—following this principle.
TRANSLATION
The mental concoction of discrimination between good and bad
should be accepted as one unit and then invested in the mind,
which should then be invested in the false ego. The false ego
should be invested in the total material energy. This is the process
of fighting false discrimination.
PURPORT
This verse describes how a yogi can become free from material affec-
tion. Because of material attraction, a karmi cannot see himself. Jndanis
can discriminate between matter and spirit, but the yogis, the best of
