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TEXT 71 vihaya kaman yah sarvan
SYNONYMS  vihaya--after
giving up; kaman--all material desires for sense gratification;
yah--the
person; sarvan--all; puman--a person; carati--lives;
nihsprhah--desireless;
nirmamah--without a sense of proprietorship;
nirahankarah--without
false ego; sah--all; santim--perfect peace; adhigacchati--attains.
TRANSLATION A person
who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from
desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of
false ego--he alone can attain real peace.
PURPORT To become desireless
means not to desire anything for sense gratification. In other words, desire
for becoming Krsna conscious is actually desirelessness. To understand
one's actual position as the eternal servitor of Krsna, without falsely
claiming this material body to be oneself and without falsely claiming
proprietorship over anything in the world, is the perfect stage of Krsna
consciousness. One who is situated in this perfect stage knows that because
Krsna is the proprietor of everything, therefore everything must be used
for the satisfaction of Krsna. Arjuna did not want to fight for his own
sense satisfaction, but when he became fully Krsna conscious he fought
because Krsna wanted him to fight. For himself there was no desire to fight,
but for Krsna the same Arjuna fought to his best ability. Desire for the
satisfaction of Krsna is really desirelessness; it is not an artificial
attempt to abolish desires. The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless,
but he does have to change the quality of the desires. A materially desireless
person certainly knows that everything belongs to Krsna (isavasyam idam
sarvam), and therefore he does not falsely claim proprietorship over
anything. This transcendental knowledge is based on self-realization--namely,
knowing perfectly well that every living entity is the eternal part and
parcel of Krsna in spiritual identity, and therefore the eternal position
of the living entity is never on the level of Krsna or greater than Him.
This understanding of Krsna consciousness is the basic principle of real
peace.
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