True liberation comes through transcendental knowledge and performing all work as sacrifice to Krishna alone.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.23 — April 12, 1974, Bombay 740412BG-BOMBAY [38:31 Minutes] Bg-04.23_740412BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate [Bg. 4.23] [break] [02:44] Translation: "The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence." Prabhupāda: gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate [Bg. 4.23] The difficulty in the conditioned state, that we are creating our next life by karma...
We are, just at the present moment, we are acting according to our past karma, and again we are creating another karma so that we have to enjoy or suffer in the next life. The transmigration of the soul takes place according to karma. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu [Bg. 13.22].
Sad-asat, good and inferior janma. So one has to take his birth in a nice family or in nice nation, good education, good-looking, nice opulence... Janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrīḥ [SB 1.8.26]. Janma means to take birth in good family, good nation, and aiśvarya, opulence, very rich.
Janmaiśvarya-śruta. Śruta means knowledge, education. And śrī, and beauty. I repeatedly say to the American people that "You have got your this position, richest nation in the world, janma..." Practically in America there is no poor man. That I have seen. They do not know what is poor man, because the poorest man gets five thousand rupees per month.
The poorest man. So actually there is no poor man. There cannot be. The government arrangement is so nice that nobody is in want of money.
He can get money in so many ways. So it is very good, fortunate position to take birth in America. Janma, rich family, rich nation. And aiśvarya.
Janma-aiśvarya-śruta, education. Now they are advanced education. By scientific advancement, they are trying to go to the moon planet. Not only that; many machine up to date they have discovered, using...