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TEXT 11 athaitad apy asakto 'si
SYNONYMS  atha--even
though; etat--this; api--also; asaktah--unable; asi--you
are; kartum--to perform; mat--unto Me; yogam--devotional
service; asritah--refuge; sarva-karma--all activities; phala--result;
tyagam--renunciation; tatah--therefore; kuru--do;
yata-atma-van--self-situated.
TRANSLATION If, however,
you are unable to work in this consciousness, then try to act giving up
all results of your work and try to be self-situated.
PURPORT It may be that
one is unable to even sympathize with the activities of Krsna consciousness
because of social, familial or religious considerations or because of some
other impediments. If one attaches himself directly to the activities of
Krsna consciousness, there may be objections from family members, or so
many other difficulties. For one who has such a problem, it is advised
that he sacrifice the accumulated result of his activities to some good
cause. Such procedures are described in the Vedic rules. There are many
descriptions of sacrifices and special functions of pumundi, or
special work in which the result of one's previous action may be applied.
Thus one may gradually become elevated to the state of knowledge. It is
also found that when one who is not even interested in the activities of
Krsna consciousness gives charity to some hospital or some other social
institution, he gives up the hard-earned results of his activities. That
is also recommended here because by the practice of giving up the fruits
of one's activities one is sure to purify his mind gradually, and in that
purified stage of mind one becomes able to understand Krsna consciousness.
Of course Krsna consciousness is not dependent on any other experience
because Krsna consciousness itself can purify one's mind, but if there
are impediments to Krsna consciousness, one may try to give up the result
of his action. In that respect, social service, community service, national
service, sacrifice for one's country, etc., may be accepted so that some
day one may come to the stage of pure devotional service to the Supreme
Lord. In Bhagavad-gita we find it is stated, yatah pravrttir
bhutanam: if one decides to sacrifice for the supreme cause, even if
he does not know that the supreme cause is Krsna, he will come gradually
to understand that Krsna is the supreme cause by the sacrificial method.
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