Now what is the motivation for such a person to work? If one is not involved, one should not be having emotional desire for the result, one should not be attached to the result. What is the motivation for working? Krishna says purification which is addressed in next verse:

Bg 5.11

kāyena manasā buddhyā

kevalair indriyair api

yoginaḥ karma kurvanti

saṅgaṁ tyaktvātma-śuddhaye

Word for word: 

kāyena — with the body; manasā — with the mind; buddhyā — with the intelligence; kevalaiḥ — purified; indriyaiḥ — with the senses; api — even; yoginaḥ — Kṛṣṇa conscious persons; karma — actions; kurvanti — they perform; saṅgam — attachment; tyaktvā — giving up; ātma — of the self; śuddhaye — for the purpose of purification.

Translation: 

The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.

 

 kāyena manasā buddhyā -> With the body, with the mind, with the intelligence and even with the senses

kevalair indriyair api

yoginaḥ karma kurvanti -> The yogi work for what purpose?

saṅgaṁ tyaktvā -> if I have given up the attachment, 

atma-śuddhaye -> for the sack of purification.

We can practice spiritual life at various levels. We have discussed fear, desire, duty and love. 

Fear -> I don’t go to God I will be punished. So let me obey God. 

Desire -> If I obey God he will give some good results. 

Duty -> Is the level where Sadhana Bhakti is performed, Duty can meant various things but for our level we want to follow spiritual master for Krishna so that I will become purified so that I will become elevated so that I will ultimately become liberated and return back to Sri Krishna, 

So kevalair indriyair api -> Why indriyair api? It is remarkable that senses can also be involved, the idea is that (1) even if the mind is not involved at least the senses are involved, that means when we are chanting Hare Krishna say we are not able to concentrate so at least do the ritual, at least let the senses chant, normally the idea in spiritual life is the senses causes the bondage and so we should have minimum engagement of the senses but the process of purification is active method of yoga, there is active method of yoga and there is contemplatory method of yoga, contemplatory method of yoga is more cantered around Jyani process, one sits and ponders I am not the body I am the soul Naiti-Naiti, this is one way of doing the things, other way of doing things is active, use the senses in Sri Krishna’s service, Use the eyes to behold the Sri Krishna’s form, use tongue to speak about Sri Krishna and in this way Sangam taktva Suddha, the senses which normally cause bondage can lead to liberation if we engage them properly at final stage, when we are purified the senses can bring us ecstasy, the senses cause bondage and agony in material world at the pure stage, the senses can bring us ecstasy, Like Rupa Goswami is saying “when I chant holy name I get so much nectar, I relish.”

Currently the senses cause agony as there is fight we should do and we should not do, but at pure stage they will bring ecstasy, but in between to go from agony to ecstasy we have to have tolerance, patience, determination so steadily we engage in process of Bhakti process of purification, so even the senses can be engaged normally i.e. the senses are put aside, like in 2.58 where it is said that like a tortoise pulls back it limbs similarly we can also withdraws all our sense inside, That is one way of acting but here it is senses can be engaged. Bhakti is sensory spirituality. Sensus means one which titillates the senses, sensus form but sensory is used more in functional sense, functional means Sensory perception NOT sensus perception, sensory perception means whatever we are perceiving with our senses. so Bhakti means sensory spirituality which means senses are actively used in spirituality, in the process of purification, in this way one makes advancement and returns back to Sri Krishna. So here the remarkable point is even senses are involved.

kevalair indriyair api

 

The same tongue which can bound us, same tongue can purify us if we speak glories of Sri Krishna, it can elevate us, it can liberate us. 

Srila Prabhupad’s purport: Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.187) describes this as follows:

īhā yasya harer dāsye

karmaṇā manasā girā

nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu

jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate

“A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness (or, in other words, in the service of Kṛṣṇa) with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person even within the material world, although he may be engaged in many so-called material activities.” 

Such a person is Jivan Mukta, such a person is actually liberated, so there are various kinds of muktas, so who are the different kinds of muktas?

Types of muktas:

  • Jivan mukta v/s videha mukta
  • Srila Jiva Goswami has talked about 3 types of maha-bhagavat:
  1. Gunatita and Svarupa-siddha – Transcended the three modes and realized the Svarupa in the spiritual world. They may be in the material world but for all practical purposes they are in the spiritual world. E.g. Raghunath Das Goswami, stomach upset as he eats Khir in the Spiritual world prepared by Sri Mati Radharani and Sakhis. There is one leg in the spiritual world, one leg in the material world.

      2.Gunatita not Svarupa-siddha – Jivan Mukata but not realized his swarupa in spiritual world because the person is no longer influenced by the three modes

      3.Not Gunatita, not Svarupa-siddha – sthira – both the legs are in the material world but eyes are fixed in the spiritual world, they are not looking here and there for the pleasure available in the material world. Their eyes are fixed on the spiritual world alone.

 

Jivan Mukta is one who has a deha i.e. who has a body but is liberated from all material attachment, so for all practical purposes he is liberated. The person is within the body but is liberated because the person has no attachments, what causes bondage is the attachment.

Deha Mukta is the person who has left the body and has gone back to the spiritual world.