Understanding Krishna's transcendental nature and engaging in His work liberates one from all karmic bondage.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: na māṃ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛhā iti māṃ yo 'bhijānāti karmabhir na sa badhyate [Bg 4.14] [There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me also does not become entangled in the fruitive reactions of work.] Now... [aside:] You can come please forward. Yes.
Karmabhir sa na badhyate. Now, the whole world is bound by his own karma, action. Everyone, every living entity... In the Brahma-saṃhitā there is a nice verse about this...
[children yelling in the background] [pause] There is a nice verse, yas tu... Beginning from the germ... There is a germ which is called indra-gopa. You know that among the living entities, the germs are in very minute form.
You cannot see even with your microscope. In a, in a space of one millimeter, you can find millions of germs. That is scientific truth. So beginning from the germs, which are called... [to children:] Please stop!
Please stop! Beginning from the germs up to the heavenly kingdom... The king of heaven is called Indra, and the smallest, minutest germ, it is also called indra-gopa in Sanskrit language. So in the Brahma-saṃhitā [Bs 5.54] it is said that, [I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who burns up to their roots all fruitive activities of those who are imbued with devotion and impartially ordains for each the due enjoyment of the fruits of one's activities, of all those who walk in the path of work, in accordance with the chain of their previously performed works, no less in the case of the tiny insect that bears the name of indragopa than in that of Indra, king of the devas.] "Beginning from this indra up to that Indra..." That means "Beginning from the germ which is known as indra-gopa up to the point of the king who is also known as Indra, all of them are bound up by the reaction of his own karma, or his own work." Every work which you are doing, good or bad, we have to suffer or enjoy the reaction of our work. And so long we have to suffer or enjoy the reaction of our work, as long as we shall go on like this, so long we have to accept this material body.
This material body is just given to us by the arrangement of nature's law for the exact status of suffering or enjoyment. Just like you have seen different animals, they have got different process of eating. Say for tiger. Tiger, they have bodies made for eating raw flesh and raw blood. So all the body is so made that they have got particular nails and jaws and teeth so that they can do that.
Similarly, you can see the hog. They have to eat the stool. Oh, they have got a particular shape of mouth so that they can easily do that. Now, we are human being.