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TEXT 10 brahmany adhaya karmani
SYNONYMS  brahmani--the
Supreme Personality of Godhead; adhaya--resigning unto; karmani--all
works; sangam--attachment; tyaktva--giving up; karoti--performs;
yah--who; lipyate--is affected; na--never; sah--he;
papena--by sin; padma-patram--lotus leaf; iva--like;
ambhasa--in the water.
TRANSLATION One who performs
his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme
God, is not affected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by
water.
PURPORT Here brahmani
means in Krsna consciousness. The material world is a sum total manifestation
of the three modes of material nature, technically called the pradhana.
The Vedic hymns sarvam hy etad brahma, tasmad etad brahma nama-rupam
annam ca jayate, and, in the Bhagavad-gita, mama yonir mahad
brahma, indicate that everything in the material world is the manifestation
of Brahman; and, although the effects are differently manifested, they
are nondifferent from the cause. In the Isopanisad it is said that
everything is related to the Supreme Brahman or Krsna, and thus everything
belongs to Him only. One who knows perfectly well that everything belongs
to Krsna, that He is the proprietor of everything and that, therefore,
everything is engaged in the service of the Lord, naturally has nothing
to do with the results of his activities, whether virtuous or sinful. Even
one's material body, being a gift of the Lord for carrying out a particular
type of action, can be engaged in Krsna consciousness. It is beyond contamination
by sinful reactions, exactly as the lotus leaf, though remaining in the
water, is not wet. The Lord also says in the Gita: mayi sarvani
karmani sannyasya: "Resign all works unto Me [Krsna]." The conclusion
is that a person without Krsna consciousness acts according to the concept
of the material body and senses, but a person in Krsna consciousness acts
according to the knowledge that the body is the property of Krsna and should
therefore be engaged in the service of Krsna.
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