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TEXT 19 tasmad asaktah satatam
SYNONYMS  tasmat--therefore;
asaktah--without
attachment; satatam--constantly; karyam--as duty; karma--work;
samacara--perform; asaktah--nonattached;
hi--certainly;
acaran--performing; karma--work; param--the Supreme;
apnoti--achieves; purusah--a man.
TRANSLATION Therefore,
without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a
matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme.
PURPORT The Supreme
is the Personality of Godhead for the devotees, and liberation for the
impersonalist. A person, therefore, acting for Krsna, or in Krsna consciousness,
under proper guidance and without attachment to the result of the work,
is certainly making progress toward the supreme goal of life. Arjuna is
told that he should fight in the Battle of Kuruksetra for the interest
of Krsna because Krsna wanted him to fight. To be a good man or a nonviolent
man is a personal attachment, but to act on behalf of the Supreme is to
act without attachment for the result. That is perfect action of the highest
degree, recommended by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna.
Vedic rituals,
like prescribed sacrifices, are performed for purification of impious activities
that were performed in the field of sense gratification. But action in
Krsna consciousness is transcendental to the reactions of good or evil
work. A Krsna conscious person has no attachment for the result but acts
on behalf of Krsna alone. He engages in all kinds of activities, but is
completely nonattached.
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