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TEXT 3 yo mam ajam anadim ca
SYNONYMS  yah--anyone
who; mam--unto Me; ajam--unborn; anadim--without beginning;
ca--also;
vetti--knows; loka--the planets; maha-isvaram--the
supreme master; asammudhah--without doubt; sah--he; martyesu--among
those subject to death; sarva-papaih--from all sinful reactions;
pramucyate--is
delivered.
TRANSLATION He who knows
Me as the unborn, as the beginningless, as the Supreme Lord of all the
worlds--he, undeluded among men, is freed from all sins.
PURPORT As stated in
the Seventh Chapter, those who are trying to elevate themselves to the
platform of spiritual realization are not ordinary men. They are superior
to millions and millions of ordinary men who have no knowledge of spiritual
realization, but out of those actually trying to understand their spiritual
situation, one who can come to the understanding that Krsna is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, the proprietor of everything, the unborn, is the
most successful spiritually realized person. In that stage only, when one
has fully understood Krsna's supreme position, can one be free completely
from all sinful reactions.
Here the
word ajam, meaning unborn, should not be confused with the living
entities, who are described in the Second Chapter as ajam. The Lord
is different from the living entities who are taking birth and dying due
to material attachment. The conditioned souls are changing their bodies,
but His body is not changeable. Even when He comes to this material world,
He comes as the same unborn; therefore in the Fourth Chapter it is said
that the Lord, by His internal potency, is not under the inferior material
energy, but is always in the superior energy.
He was existing
before the creation, and He is different from His creation. All the demigods
were created within this material world, but as far as Krsna is concerned,
it is said that He is not created; therefore Krsna is different even from
the great demigods like Brahma and Siva. And because He is the creator
of Brahma, Siva and all the other demigods, He is the Supreme Person of
all planets.
Sri Krsna
is therefore different from everything that is created, and anyone who
knows Him as such immediately becomes liberated from all sinful reaction.
One must be liberated from all sinful activities to be in the knowledge
of the Supreme Lord. Only by devotional service can He be known and not
by any other means, as stated in Bhagavad-gita.
One should
not try to understand Krsna as a human being. As stated previously, only
a foolish person thinks Him to be a human being. This is again expressed
here in a different way. A man who is not foolish, who is intelligent enough
to understand the constitutional position of the Godhead, is always free
from all sinful reactions.
If Krsna
is known as the son of Devaki, then how can He be unborn? That is also
explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam: When He appeared before Devaki and
Vasudeva, He was not born as an ordinary child; He appeared in His original
form, and then He transformed Himself into an ordinary child.
Anything
done under the direction of Krsna is transcendental. It cannot be contaminated
by the material reactions, which may be auspicious or inauspicious. The
conception that there are things auspicious and inauspicious in the material
world is more or less a mental concoction because there is nothing auspicious
in the material world. Everything is inauspicious because the very material
mask is inauspicious. We simply imagine it to be auspicious. Real auspiciousness
depends on activities in Krsna consciousness in full devotion and service.
Therefore if we at all want our activities to be auspicious, then we should
work under the directions of the Supreme Lord. Such directions are given
in authoritative scriptures such as Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita,
or from a bona fide spiritual master. Because the spiritual master is the
representative of the Supreme Lord, his direction is directly the direction
of the Supreme Lord. The spiritual master, saintly persons and scriptures
direct in the same way. There is no contradiction in these three sources.
All actions done under such direction are free from the reactions of pious
or impious activities of this material world. The transcendental attitude
of the devotee in the performance of activities is actually that of renunciation,
and this is called sannyasa. Anyone acting under the direction of
the Supreme Lord is actually a sannyasi and a yogi, and not
the man who has simply taken the dress of the sannyasi, or a pseudo-yogi.
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