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Yad anudhya asina yuktah karma granthi nibandhanam
Chhindanti kovidas tasya ko na kuryat katha ratim.
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Yad—which, anudhya—remembrance, asina—sowrd, yuktah—being equipped with persons, karma—reactionary work, granthi—knot, nibandhanam—interknit, chhindanti—cut, kovida—intelligent, tasya—His, ko—who, na—not, kuryat—shall not do, katha—messages, ratim—attention.
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Intelligent persons do cut off the interknit of the knot of reactionery work, by remembrance of the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not, give attention to His message.
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Contact of the spiritual spark living being with material elements is the point of interknitting knot. Unless that knot is cut off the living being has to undergo fruitive action and reactions of his endless work. Liberation means freedom from the cycle of reactionary work and this liberation automatically follows for one who constantly remembers the transcendental pastimes of the Personality of Godhead. The reason is that all activities of the Supreme Lord or His Leela are transcendental to the modes of material energy. They are all attractive spiritual activities and therefore, constant association of the spiritual activities of the Supreme Lord, gradually spiritualise the reminiscence of the conditioned soul and ultimately unlocks the interknitting knot of material bondage.
#$p#Liberation from the material bondage is, therefore, a by-product of devotional service. Attainment of spiritual knowledge is not sufficient to ensure liberation to such learned fellows. Such knowledge must be overcoated with devotional service so that ultimately the devotional service only predominates and liberation is made possible. Even the reactionary work of the fruitive workers, can lead one to liberation when the same is overcoated with devotional service. Karma overcoated with devotional service is called Karma yoga. Similarly emperic knowledge overcoated with devotional service is called Jnana yoga. Pure Bhaktiyoga is independant of such Karma and Jnana because that alone can not only endow one with liberation from the conditional life but also can award the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
#$p#Therefore, any sensible man who is above the average man with a poor fund of knowledge, must do constantly remember the Personality of Godhead by hearing about Him, by glorifying Him, by remembering Him and by worshipping Him always without any interval. That is the perfect way of devotional service. The Goswamins of Vrindaban who were authorised by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to preach the Bhakti Cult, rigidly followed this rule and made immense literatures of transcendental science for our benefit. They have chalked out ways for all classes of men in terms of the divisions of different status and order of life in pursuance of the teachings of Srimad Bhagwatam and similar other authoritative scriptures.
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#dl##dd#yad-anudhyāsinā yuktāḥ#/dd#
#dd#karma-granthi-nibandhanam#/dd#
#dd#chindanti kovidās tasya#/dd#
#dd#ko na kuryāt kathā-ratim#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yat#/i# — which; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=anudhyā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#anudhyā#/i# — remembrance; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=asinā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#asinā#/i# — sword; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yuktāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yuktāḥ#/i# — being equipped with; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=karma&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#karma#/i# — reactionary work; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=granthi&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#granthi#/i# — knot; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=nibandhanam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#nibandhanam#/i# — interknit; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=chindanti&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#chindanti#/i# — cut; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kovidāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kovidāḥ#/i# — intelligent; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tasya&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tasya#/i# — His; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kaḥ#/i# — who; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=na&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#na#/i# — not; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kuryāt&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kuryāt#/i# — shall do; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kathā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kathā#/i# — messages; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ratim&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ratim#/i# — attention.
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With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message?
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The contact of the spiritual spark with material elements creates a knot which must be cut if one wants to be liberated from the actions and reactions of fruitive work. Liberation means freedom from the cycle of reactionary work. This liberation automatically follows for one who constantly remembers the transcendental pastimes of the Personality of Godhead. This is because all the activities of the Supreme Lord (His #i#līlā#/i#) are transcendental to the modes of the material energy. They are all-attractive spiritual activities, and therefore constant association with the spiritual activities of the Supreme Lord gradually spiritualizes the conditioned soul and ultimately severs the knot of material bondage.
#$p#Liberation from material bondage is, therefore, a by-product of devotional service. Attainment of spiritual knowledge is not sufficient to insure liberation. Such knowledge must be overcoated with devotional service so that ultimately the devotional service alone predominates. Then liberation is made possible. Even the reactionary work of the fruitive workers can lead one to liberation when it is overcoated with devotional service. #i#Karma#/i# overcoated with devotional service is called #i#karma-yoga#/i#. Similarly, empirical knowledge overcoated with devotional service is called #i#jñāna-yoga#/i#. But pure #i#bhakti-yoga#/i# is independent of such #i#karma#/i# and #i#jñāna#/i# because it alone can not only endow one with liberation from conditional life but also award one the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
#$p#Therefore, any sensible man who is above the average man with a poor fund of knowledge must constantly remember the Personality of Godhead by hearing about Him, by glorifying Him, by remembering Him and by worshiping Him always, without cessation. That is the perfect way of devotional service. The Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, who were authorized by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to preach the #i#bhakti#/i# cult, rigidly followed this rule and made immense literatures of transcendental science for our benefit. They have chalked out ways for all classes of men in terms of the different castes and orders of life in pursuance of the teachings of #i#Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam#/i# and similar other authoritative scriptures.
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