Mr. Malhotra: But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty...
Prabhupāda: Then ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣ... (B.G.18:66), then Kṛṣṇa takes care of you.
Mr. Malhotra: Then those karmas don't affect...?
Prabhupāda: No. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54). Those who are bhaktas, their karmas are finished. Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. Devotee is not under karma-phala.
- māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa
- bhakti-yogena sevate
- sa guṇān samatītyaitān
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
- (B.G.14:26)
He is Brahman, immediately, liberated soul. Without being liberated, nobody can be engaged in devotional service.
(Room conversation------Poona).
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bob: Determines your karma.
Prabhupāda: According to the association of the modes of nature your activities are being contaminated. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu (B.G.13:22). A man gets higher birth or lower birth according to the association of the guṇa, or the modes of nature.
(Talks with Bob Cohen--------Mayapura).
Gurukṛpā: But the intelligence is awarded from... Intelligence, according to the individual, is awarded according to pious activities?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Intelligence is developed by association, by hearing, by experiencing. Otherwise very big intelligence, he's also dull. Don't you see the big, big leaders, Gandhi and Radhakrishnan, they have no intelligence? They are misinterpreting the whole..., although they're passing as very big men, intelligent. And if you say to them that "You are not intelligent; you are wrongly interpreting Bhagavad-gītā," they will be offended. So intelligence is so dull even to such big, big men, what to speak of ordinary men? Big, big demigods, their intelligence also lacking. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, kona: "Somebody very fortunate, he can understand." Kona bhāgyavān. And another place, brahmāra durlabha prema: "Even Brahmā cannot understand what is Kṛṣṇa consciousness." Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu (B.G.7:3). These things are... So this intelligence is not so easy. Na janma-koṭibhiḥ sukṛtair labhyate. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante (B.G.7:19). There are so many places that "To come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not so easy." It requires very, very great intelligence.
(Room conversation------Puri).
Reporter: Yeah. But what is the meaning of akarma?
Prabhupāda: Akarma means that does not produce another karma. Or sometimes akarma means laziness.
(Room conversation--------London).
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