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TEXT 5 na hi kascit ksanam api
SYNONYMS  na--nor;
hi--certainly;
kascit--anyone;
ksanam--even a moment;
api--also;
jatu--even; tisthati--stands;
akarma-krt--without doing something; karyate--forced to work;
hi--certainly;
avasah--helplessly;
karma--work; sarvah--everything;
prakrti-jaih--out
of the modes of material nature; gunaih--by the qualities.
TRANSLATION All men are
forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of
material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not
even for a moment.
PURPORT It is not a
question of embodied life, but it is the nature of the soul to be always
active. Without the presence of the spirit soul, the material body cannot
move. The body is only a dead vehicle to be worked by the spirit soul,
which is always active and cannot stop even for a moment. As such, the
spirit soul has to be engaged in the good work of Krsna consciousness,
otherwise it will be engaged in occupations dictated by illusory energy.
In contact with material energy, the spirit soul acquires material modes,
and to purify the soul from such affinities it is necessary to engage in
the prescribed duties enjoined in the sastras. But if the soul is
engaged in his natural function of Krsna consciousness, whatever he is
able to do is good for him. The Srimad-Bhagavatam affirms this:
tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harer
"If someone
takes to Krsna consciousness, even though he may not follow the prescribed
duties in the sastras nor execute the devotional service properly,
and even though he may fall down from the standard, there is no loss or
evil for him. But if he carries out all the injunctions for purification
in the sastras, what does it avail him if he is not Krsna conscious?"
(Bhag. 1.5.17) So the purificatory process is necessary for reaching
this point of Krsna consciousness. Therefore, sannyasa, or any purificatory
process, is to help reach the ultimate goal of becoming Krsna conscious,
without which everything is considered a failure.
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