Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10 Verse 3

[bilva]

Chapter 10. The Opulence of the Absolute

TEXT 3
yo mam ajam anadim ca
vetti loka-mahesvaram
asammudhah sa martyesu
sarva-papaih pramucyate

SYNONYMS
yah--anyone who; mam--unto Me; ajam--unborn; anadim--without
beginning; ca--also; vetti--knows; loka--the planets; maha-isvaram--
the supreme master; asammudhah--without doubt; sah--he; martyesu--
among those subject to death; sarva-papaih--from all sinful reactions;
pramucyate--is delivered.

TRANSLATION
He who knows Me as the unborn, as the beginningless, as the Supreme
Lord of all the worlds--he, undeluded among men, is freed from all
sins.

EXPLANATION
As stated in the Seventh Chapter, those who are trying to elevate
themselves to the platform of spiritual realization are not ordinary
men. They are superior to millions and millions of ordinary men who
have no knowledge of spiritual realization, but out of those actually
trying to understand their spiritual situation, one who can come to
the understanding that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
the proprietor of everything, the unborn, is the most successful
spiritually realized person. In that stage only, when one has fully
understood Krsna's supreme position, can one be free completely from
all sinful reactions.
Here the word ajam, meaning unborn, should not be confused with the
living entities, who are described in the Second Chapter as ajam. The
Lord is different from the living entities who are taking birth and
dying due to material attachment. The conditioned souls are changing
their bodies, but His body is not changeable. Even when He comes to
this material world, He comes as the same unborn; therefore in the
Fourth Chapter it is said that the Lord, by His internal potency, is
not under the inferior material energy, but is always in the superior
energy.
He was existing before the creation, and He is different from His
creation. All the demigods were created within this material world,
but as far as Krsna is concerned, it is said that He is not created;
therefore Krsna is different even from the great demigods like Brahma
and Siva. And because He is the creator of Brahma, Siva and all the
other demigods, He is the Supreme Person of all planets.
Sri Krsna is therefore different from everything that is created, and
anyone who knows Him as such immediately becomes liberated from all
sinful reaction. One must be liberated from all sinful activities to
be in the knowledge of the Supreme Lord. Only by devotional service
can He be known and not by any other means, as stated in Bhagavad-
gita.
One should not try to understand Krsna as a human being. As stated
previously, only a foolish person thinks Him to be a human being. This
is again expressed here in a different way. A man who is not foolish,
who is intelligent enough to understand the constitutional position of
the Godhead, is always free from all sinful reactions.
If Krsna is known as the son of Devaki, then how can He be unborn?
That is also explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam: When He appeared before
Devaki and Vasudeva, He was not born as an ordinary child; He appeared
in His original form, and then He transformed Himself into an ordinary
child.
Anything done under the direction of Krsna is transcendental. It
cannot be contaminated by the material reactions, which may be
auspicious or inauspicious. The conception that there are things
auspicious and inauspicious in the material world is more or less a
mental concoction because there is nothing auspicious in the material
world. Everything is inauspicious because the very material mask is
inauspicious. We simply imagine it to be auspicious. Real
auspiciousness depends on activities in Krsna consciousness in full
devotion and service. Therefore if we at all want our activities to be
auspicious, then we should work under the directions of the Supreme
Lord. Such directions are given in authoritative scriptures such as
Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita, or from a bona fide spiritual
master. Because the spiritual master is the representative of the
Supreme Lord, his direction is directly the direction of the Supreme
Lord. The spiritual master, saintly persons and scriptures direct in
the same way. There is no contradiction in these three sources. All
actions done under such direction are free from the reactions of pious
or impious activities of this material world. The transcendental
attitude of the devotee in the performance of activities is actually
that of renunciation, and this is called sannyasa. Anyone acting under
the direction of the Supreme Lord is actually a sannyasi and a yogi,
and not the man who has simply taken the dress of the sannyasi, or a
pseudo-yogi.

Following is a quotation by Swami Gaurangapada:
"We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions;
We sow our actions, and we reap this present life;
We sow this life; and we reap the next life & our destiny"

Please chant Nityananda, Gauranga and Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and
realize the supreme Lord Sri Krishna who is the Lord of all the
worlds.