Devanagari
कर्मनिर्हारमुद्दिश्य परस्मिन्वा तदर्पणम् ।
यजेद्यष्टव्यमिति वा पृथग्भाव: स सात्त्विक: ॥ १० ॥
Verse text
karma-nirhāram uddiśya
parasmin vā tad-arpaṇam
yajed yaṣṭavyam iti vā
pṛthag-bhāvaḥ sa sāttvikaḥ
Synonyms
karma
—
fruitive activities
;
nirhāram
—
freeing himself from
;
uddiśya
—
with the purpose of
;
parasmin
—
to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
vā
—
or
;
tat
—
arpaṇam — offering the result of activities
;
yajet
—
may worship
;
yaṣṭavyam
—
to be worshiped
;
iti
—
thus
;
vā
—
or
;
pṛthak
—
bhāvaḥ — separatist
;
saḥ
—
he
;
sāttvikaḥ
—
in the mode of goodness .
Translation
When a devotee worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offers the results of his activities in order to free himself from the inebrieties of fruitive activities, his devotion is in the mode of goodness.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
He who worships me with a desire to destroy karma, making his works an offering the Supreme Lord, or executing the worship as a duty, having a desire for liberation, has sattvic bhakti.
He worships with the intention of destroying karma; his goal in bhakti is to destroy karma. He worships in such a way that his actions are offered to the Lord; he performs bhakti of hearing and chanting but filled with offering of occupational duties. He worships out of duty, having obtained rules for daily rites. He worships while performing his duties of his āśrama, thinking that his worship is similar to his execution of āśrama duties. He has the desire for liberation (pṛthak-bhāvaḥ). The nine types of bhakti (three types of tamasic, rajasic and sattvic bhakti), sakāma-bhakti, are successively superior. Sattvic bhakti produces some sort of knowledge. When jṣāna is secondary and bhakti is primary or predominant, it is called jṣāna-miśra-bhakti, which produces śānti-rati, beyond the three guṇas. If jṣāna predominates and bhakti is secondary, bhakti being a mere aṅga of jṣāna, then it produces sāyujya-mukti. Bhakti mixed with karmas such a horse sacrifice with desire for material gain, with some offering of actions, and attachment to results, but not offering of all actions, produces sālokya liberation with happiness and powers. If one performs bhakti and offers some karmas without desire for results, it produces śānti-rati. Though rajasic and tamasic bhakti produce results, the performers generally get material results. However, the results will be greater than usual, because of the power of bhakti. In terms of yielding devotion results, in some cases such bhakti will with time become pure bhakti, as illustrated by the following verse.
satyaṁ diśaty arthitam arthito nṛṇāṁ
naivārthado yat punar arthitā yataḥ
svayaṁ vidhatte bhajatām anicchatām
icchāpidhānaṁ nija-pāda-pallavam
The Lord certainly gives desired objects to devotees who request them, but he does not give in such a way that the devotee will ask again after finishing his enjoyment. He gives his lotus feet, which include all desirables, to those worshippers who do not desire them. SB 5.19.27
Purport
The
brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas
and
śūdras,
along with the
brahmacārīs, gṛhasthas, vānaprasthas
and
sannyāsīs,
are the members of the eight divisions of
varṇas
and
āśramas,
and they have their respective duties to perform for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When such activities are performed and the results are offered to the Supreme Lord, they are called
karmārpaṇam,
duties performed for the satisfaction of the Lord. If there is any inebriety or fault, it is atoned for by this offering process. But if this offering process is in the mode of goodness rather than in pure devotion, then the interest is different. The four
āśramas
and the four
varṇas
act for some benefit in accordance with their personal interests. Therefore such activities are in the mode of goodness; they cannot be counted in the category of pure devotion. Pure devotional service as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī is free from all material desires.
Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam.
There can be no excuse for personal or material interest. Devotional activities should be transcendental to fruitive activities and empiric philosophical speculation. Pure devotional service is transcendental to all material qualities.
Devotional service in the modes of ignorance, passion and goodness can be divided into eighty-one categories. There are different devotional activities, such as hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering prayer, rendering service and surrendering everything, and each of them can be divided into three qualitative categories. There is hearing in the mode of passion, in the mode of ignorance and in the mode of goodness. Similarly, there is chanting in the mode of ignorance, passion and goodness, etc. Three multiplied by nine equals twenty-seven, and when again multiplied by three it becomes eighty-one. One has to transcend all such mixed materialistic devotional service in order to reach the standard of pure devotional service, as explained in the next verses.