Bhagavad-gita As It Is

by A.C. Bhaktivedanta

If one is serious about liberation from material bondage, one has to understand the distinctions between action, inaction and unauthorized actions.

Akarma means without reaction to work.

Because everything is done for Kṛṣṇa, he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge of this service.

Development of this knowledge of eternal servitorship to the Lord is compared to fire. Such a fire, once kindled, can burn up all kinds of reactions to work.

He is not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Kṛṣṇa.

Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor to protect things already in his possession. He does his duty to the best of his ability and leaves everything to Kṛṣṇa.

This is the sign of akarma, or actions without fruitive reactions.

For maintaining body and soul, he does not require unfair means of accumulating money.

He neither begs nor borrows, but he labors honestly as far as is in his power, and is satisfied with whatever is obtained by his own honest labor.

He does not allow anyone’s service to hamper his own service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Therefore he is steady both in success and in failure. These signs are visible when one is fully in transcendental knowledge.

Becoming fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, one is freed from all dualities and thus is free from the contaminations of the material modes.

samādhi,

The demigods are powerful living entities appointed by the Supreme Lord for the maintenance and supervision of all material functions like the heating, watering and lighting of the universe.

bahv-īśvara-vādī, or believers in many gods.

pratyag-ātmā and parāg-ātmā.

dravyamaya-yajña.

sacred marriage for regulated sense gratification.