Prabhupāda: Yes. "The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature." The modes of material nature are three: goodness, passion and ignorance. Somebody is working in the material world in the quality of goodness. In Vedic culture these divisions are very distinct. Just like brāhmins, sannyāsīs, they are supposed to be working in goodness, because they are simply working for God consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, brāhmins business.
The kṣatriyas, they are working in the modes of passion. They want to possess land, they want to be king, they want to be leader of the citizens, and they see to the protection of the citizens. This is called in the mode of passion. And the third degree is the mercantile community. They are engaged in trades, commerce. In this way, the fourth grade of man is the laborer class. They have no capacity either to become brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya. They have to take shelter of somebody and must be satisfied with the wages he takes from that.
In this age, the Vedic literature says, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ.
In this age practically everyone is a śūdra, laborer class, because everyone is dependent. The brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya, they are not dependent, but laborer class, they are dependent. So because this human civilization at the present moment is so made that everyone is dependent, nobody is self-sufficient. One has to work somewhere for his livelihood.
So in this age practically everyone is dependent, or laborer class. Now here it is said that, "The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature." Now this division, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, or the intelligent class, the administrative class, mercantile class and the laborer class—you say in any way—these are material activities. But when you engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, either you are a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya or śūdra, then you are transcendental immediately.
Just like in this body there are different parts and section. The head . . . head is one section. The arm, another section. The abdomen, another section. The legs, another section. So the leg is considered to be laborer class, carrying me. The hand is working, protecting me. The brain is giving me intelligence. In this way, every part is working for the whole body.
Similarly, either you become intelligent class of men or you become administrator or you become mercantile class or laborer, if you engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness then your position is transcendental. You are no more in the material nature. This is the process of transcendental position.
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Devotee: "To him Brahman, the Supreme, is the offering, Brahman is the oblation and the sacrificial fire, and by Brahman the sacrifice is performed. By performing action in this way, one ultimately attains the Supreme."
Purport: "A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom through his full contribution to spiritual activities, for the consummation is absolute and the things offered are also of the same spiritual nature. How activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can lead one ultimately to the spiritual goal is described here. There are various activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. All of them will be described in the following verses. But for the present, just the principle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is described."
"A conditioned soul entangled in material contamination is sure to act in the material atmosphere, and yet he has to get out of such an environment. The process by which the conditioned soul can get out of the material atmosphere is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. For example, a person who is suffering from a disorder of the bowels . . ."
Prabhupāda: "A patient." "A patient." "A patient who is suffering." Yes.
Devotee: Oh. "For example, a patient who is suffering from a disorder of the bowels due to overindulgence in milk products is cured by another milk product, curd. Similarly, the materially absorbed conditioned soul can be cured by Kṛṣṇa consciousness as is prescribed here in the Bhagavad-gītā."
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is a very good example. Sometimes . . . in India, of course, out of our greediness we take too much milk products—khīr and sweet rice and burfī, pranāl, so many. So if you take too much milk then there is possibility of . . . (indistinct) . . . disorder of the bowel. Ghee. Therefore when you go the physician he will give you some medicine, and he will ask you to take this medicine with yogurt. Now what is this yogurt? This yogurt is also milk preparation. Now you can doubt, "How is that? My disorder of bowel is due to taking too much milk preparation. How it will be cured by yogurt?" So this is the way. The yogurt is a . . . although milk preparation, its action is different.
Similarly, you will find that these boys and girls acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, what they are doing? They have rented a nice house which is called temple. They are cooking there, eating there, dancing and singing. The outsider they will say: "What is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness? They are living in the nice house and they are eating very nicely, dancing, singing. What is the difference? We also do that. We go to the club and eat very nicely and dance also. What is the difference?" There is the difference. What is that difference? The one milk preparation causes disorder, another milk preparation cures. This is practical. Another milk preparation cures you.
If you go on dancing in the club and eating in the club, then gradually you become diseased materially. And the same dancing and same eating here, you become spiritually advanced. So nothing has to be stopped. Simply it has to be changed by the direction of an expert physician. That's all. As the expert physician gives you yogurt mixed with some medicine—actually, medicine is just to bluff the patient—actually, the yogurt will act—so similarly, we have to do everything.
But because it is mixed up with that medicine of Kṛṣṇa consciousness it will cure your material disease. That is the process. Because it is mixed up with some medicine which is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness, therefore your dancing, your eating, your loving affairs—all, whatever you want there is, but it is well-treated. It will not entangle you. It will give more and more enlightenment of spiritual understanding. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.