SB 7.10.14
TEXT 14
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TEXT
य एतत्कीर्तयेन्मह्यं त्वया गीतमिदं नरः ।
त्वां च मां च स्मरन्काले कर्मबन्धात्प्रमुच्यते ॥ १४ ॥ ya etat kirtayen mahyam
tvaya gitam idam narah
tvam ca mam ca smaran kale
karma-bandhat pramucyate
yah-anyone who; etat-this activity; kirtayet-chants; mahyam-unto Me; tvaya-by you; gitam-prayers offered; idam-this; narah-human being; tvam-you; ca-as well as; mam ca-Me also; smaran-remembering; kale-in due course of time; karma-bandhat-from the bondage of material activities; pramucyate-becomes free.
TRANSLATION
One who always remembers your activities and My activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course of time, from the reactions of material activities.
PURPORT
"O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation."
"One who is not disturbed in spite of the threefold miseries, who is not elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind." A devotee should not be aggrieved in an awkward position, nor should he feel extraordinarily happy in material opulence. This is the way of expert management of material life. Because a devotee knows how to manage expertly, he is called jivan-mukta. As Rupa Gosvami explains in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu:
"A person acting in Krsna consciousness (or, in other words, in the service of Krsna) with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person even within this material world, although he may be engaged in many so-called material activities." Because of constantly engaging in devotional service, in any condition of life, a devotee is free from all material bondage.
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