True wisdom means freeing every action from lustful desire and engaging the senses solely for Krishna's satisfaction.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.19 — April 8, 1974, Bombay 740408BG-BOMBAY [44:30 Minutes] Bg-04.19_740408BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [Prabhupāda speaking aside at same time: "You also. You were asking."] yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ jñānāgni-dagdha-karmāṇaṁ tam āhuḥ paṇḍitaṁ budhāḥ [Bg. 4.19] Prabhupāda: tam āhuḥ paṇḍitaṁ budhāḥ. [break] [02:39] Translation: "One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." Prabhupāda: yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ jñānāgni-dagdha-karmāṇaṁ tam āhuḥ paṇḍitaṁ budhāḥ [Bg. 4.19] Paṇḍita, paṇḍita means one who knows.
Generally, in India the learned brāhmaṇas are called "Panditjī." Brāhmaṇa's honorable, I mean to say, title is "Panditjī." And vaiśya's honorable title: "Sethjī." Panditjī, Sethjī. Even the śūdras, they are given some honor, "Choudhuri." This is Indian system. Everyone is given some honor. Especially in upper India, the brāhmaṇas, even at the present moment, they are addressed as Panditjī.
And the kṣatriyas, they are addressed as "Thakur Saheb". And vaiśyas, they are addressed as Sethjī, and the śūdras, they're addressed as Choudhurijī. They're also given some honor. This was the system of Indian life.
Hindus, Muhammadans, they used to live very peacefully. It is not a fact that Muhammadans were always aggressive. Otherwise, how they could rule over India for eight hundred years? The Britishers could not rule even two hundred years.
But they ruled over India eight hundred years. Only due to Aurangzeb's policy, the Mogul empire dismantled. Anyway, so, yasya sarve samārambhāḥ. Samārambhāḥ means all attempts. Yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ.
We want to do something to enjoy the fruit. We do some business with a desire, "The profit I shall enjoy." We live in family life. The desire is that... Everyone is trying to satisfy his senses, especially in this age.
Dāmpatye ratir eva hi. In the śāstra it is said, dāmpatye, means husband and wife relationship, will exist in this age of Kali only on the point of sex life. If there is disturbance in sex life, there is divorce. So kāma is there.