Karma Yoga : Overcoming Spiritual Ego – the biggest trap on the spiritual path

If you have not already done so, I would request you to review the Chapter 2, Sankhya Yoga before studying chapter 3 as that would help set the right context.
You can find the explanation of the previous set of shlokas from chapter (3.25 to 3.28) here. Please go through that to get a better understand and maintain continuity in your learning.
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You can find below the condensed gist of the narrative. For the complete expanded narrative, look below the verses.

Key Terms Glossary

Keywords: overcoming spiritual ego, spiritual bypassing in Vedanta, using knowledge as a weapon, compassion and wisdom in Bhagavad Gita, how spiritual ego disguises itself as detachment, Bhagavad Gita 3.29 commentary on not disturbing others, why knowing the truth is not enough without compassion, how to surrender actions to God without pretending, what does Krishna say about the misuse of spiritual knowledge, can spiritual practice make the ego stronger, how do I know if my detachment is real or just avoidance

Verses 3.29 – 3.31

प्रकृतेर्गुणसम्मूढा: सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु |
तानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान्कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत् || 29||

prakṛiter guṇa-sammūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇa-karmasu
tān akṛitsna-vido mandān kṛitsna-vin na vichālayet

प्रकृतेर् (prakṛter) – of material nature; गुणसम्मूढा: (guṇa-sammūḍhāḥ) – deluded by the modes; सज्जन्ते (sajjante) – become attached; गुणकर्मसु (guṇa-karmasu) – to activities under the modes; तान् (tān) – them; अकृत्स्नविदः (akṛtsna-vidaḥ) – one who is imperfectly knowledgeable; मन्दान् (mandān) – the foolish; कृत्स्नवित् (kṛtsna-vit) – one who is fully knowledgeable; न (na) – not; विचालयेत् (vichālayet) – should disturb.

Those deluded by the modes of material nature become attached to the activities dictated by the guṇas. The one who knows the whole truth should not disturb these kinds of people who know only partial truth and lack the required knowledge.

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा |
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वर: || 30||

mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasyādhyātma-chetasā
nirāśhīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ

मयि (mayi) – in me; सर्वाणि (sarvāṇi) – all; कर्माणि (karmāṇi) – duties or actions; संन्यस्य (saṁnyasya) – having dedicated; अध्यात्मचेतसा (adhyātmachetasā) – with a mind focused on the spiritual; निराशीर् (nirāśīr) – without expectation; निर्ममो (nirmamo) – without sense of proprietorship; भूत्वा (bhūtvā) – having become; युध्यस्व (yudhyasva) – fight; विगतज्वर: (vigatajvaraḥ) – free from mental fever or hesitation.

Dedicate all your duties to me, with a mind focused on the spiritual. Without expectation or sense of proprietorship, and free from tension and anxiety, go forth and fight.

ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवा: |
श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभि: || 31||

ye me matam idaṁ nityam anutiṣhṭhanti mānavāḥ
śhraddhāvanto ’nasūyanto muchyante te ’pi karmabhiḥ

ये (ye) – those who; मे (me) – my; मतम् (matam) – opinion or doctrine; इदं (idam) – this; नित्यम् (nityam) – always; अनुतिष्ठन्ति (anutisthanti) – follow; मानवा: (manavāh) – human beings; श्रद्धावन्तः (Shraddhavantaḥ) – having faith; अनसूयन्तः (anasūyantaḥ) – without envy or finding faults; मुच्यन्ते (mucyante) – are liberated; ते (te) – they; अपि (api) – also; कर्मभि: (karmabhiḥ) – from actions or duties.

Those who constantly practise this teaching of Mine, with profound faith and free from envy, are released from the bondage of karma.

What Shri Krishna is correcting in Arjuna

What Shri Krishna is doing in these verses is very delicate. He is not merely adding one more layer of philosophy. He is correcting a confusion that sits deep in Arjuna, and the same confusion lives in us as well. 

Shri Krishna has already shown that much of what we call action is really the movement of prakṛti through the guṇas. The senses move outward, the mind runs in familiar grooves, likes and dislikes keep rising, and in the middle of all this the ego quietly says, I am doing. That much has already been explained. 

But now Shri Krishna turns to something even more subtle. He begins to show what happens when this truth is not understood properly, and how it must be handled with care.

In verse 3.29, He says: 

प्रकृतेर्गुणसम्मूढा: सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु|

prakṛteḥ guṇasammūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇakarmasu, 

Those who are deluded by the guṇas of prakṛti become attached to the activities dictated by the guṇas.

The word sammūḍhāḥ means not just a little unclear but fundamentally mistaken about what is happening inside them. These are people who are part of the flow of the guṇas and do not even know it. They think their actions are entirely their own, entirely deliberate, when in truth they are being carried along by forces they neither acknowledge nor understand.

This is such an important diagnosis. It means that people are not simply choosing freely in the way they imagine. They are being carried by tendencies, habits, impressions, fears, longings, and old conditioning, and they do not even fully know it. What arises from sattva, rajas, and tamas is taken to be personal authorship. The mind says, I decided, I achieved, I failed, I suffered, when in truth much of this is the machinery of nature moving through a person who is still identified with it.

That is why Shri Krishna uses strong words. He speaks of those who are akṛtsna-vidaḥ, people of partial understanding, and even mandān, people who do not yet see deeply. But He does not speak of them with contempt. He is not insulting them. He is describing the ordinary human condition.

Most people do not know how much of their life is being shaped by inner forces they have never really observed or understood. They believe they are acting from freedom while they are actually being pushed and pulled by guṇas and vāsanās. So the problem is not that they are bad. The problem is that they do not yet see clearly.

Then Shri Krishna says something very beautiful and very compassionate. The one who knows the whole, the kṛtsnavit, should not unsettle them. Na vicālayet. Do not disturb them. Do not shake them. Do not violently break apart the little understanding from which they are presently living.

This teaching is deeper than it first appears. Shri Krishna is not only talking about truth. He is talking about the responsibility that comes with truth. It is not enough to know something correctly. We must also know how to share it, when to share it, and how not to injure another person in the name of imparting knowledge.

A teaching may be true in words and still harmful in the way it is given. A person may know something correctly and still use it wrongly.

And this matters especially for Arjuna. He is not simply asking questions from a place of innocent inquiry. He is also trying to escape pain. He wants to step away from a terrifying duty, and part of him wants that withdrawal to look noble. So if Shri Krishna only says there is no real doer, or all this is the play of prakṛti, Arjuna could easily hide inside that teaching. He could turn fear into renunciation. He could make avoidance look like spirituality. Shri Krishna does not allow that. He gives the truth, but He gives it with responsibility.

The compassion hidden in not unsettling others

If we look carefully, this instruction tells us a great deal about how human beings actually grow. Very few people begin from a pure place. Most of us act from mixed motives. We may work from fear of failure, from the need to be respected, from the desire to be needed, from family pressure, from ambition, from insecurity, from the longing to feel worthwhile. These are not the highest motives, but they may still be the platform through which a person is learning steadiness, discipline, and responsibility.

So what should the wise do? Shri Krishna says do not go and tear away the little supporting platform that person is standing on. Help them if you can. Educate them if you can. But do not disturb them and then leave them in a broken condition. A person who cannot yet swim is not helped by having the life jacket suddenly taken away. First they must be steadied.

First they must be shown how to trust the water, how to breathe, how not to panic. Then slowly they can learn to swim freely without support. The same is true inwardly. We cannot force a higher viewpoint on someone who has not yet grown into it.

We can see this very clearly in family life. Suppose someone in the home is doing a great deal, carrying responsibility, managing things, making sacrifices, but inwardly still wants appreciation. They still want to be acknowledged. They still need some reassurance that their effort matters. Now imagine another family member has heard a little Vedānta and starts saying, why do you need recognition, why are you attached, this is all ego.

That may sound spiritually correct on the surface, but it is not healing and certainly not helping the other person. It usually produces hurt, shame, and loneliness. The person who was trying, however imperfectly, now feels judged instead of guided.

Real wisdom would look very different. It would first honor the sincerity of the effort. It would reduce insecurity rather than increase it. It would create a little more inner safety. Then, slowly, it could help the person discover something deeper than approval. It could help them find the joy of contribution itself. That is how growth becomes possible. Not through harsh correction, but through truthful compassion.

The same thing happens in spiritual communities. People do not always come for the highest reason at the beginning. They may come for a sense of belonging, for relief from pain, for stability, even sometimes for identity or recognition. A mature spiritual community understands this. It receives people where they are and gently turns them toward bhakti, viveka, and honesty. If instead it demands immediate purity, many seekers will either pretend or collapse.

Shri Krishna is teaching us that wisdom without compassion easily becomes another form of himsā, even if it sounds correct.

And this does not apply only to how we deal with others. It also applies to how we deal with ourselves. We are often the ones we disturb most harshly. We hear a teaching about surrender and then become angry with ourselves for still feeling anxious. We hear a teaching about nonattachment and then judge ourselves for still wanting love or appreciation. We carry an image of what a spiritual person should be, and every time we fall short of that image we become violent inwardly. But growth does not happen well under that kind of inner harshness. Shri Krishna’s instruction contains a quiet kindness for our own path as well. 

The turning point in verse 3.30

Then Shri Krishna turns the teaching inward in a much deeper way. In Bhagavad Gita 3.30, He does not merely tell Arjuna what not to do with others. He tells him how he himself must live. This is one of the most powerful instructions in the Bhagavad Gita. He says, in essence, place all actions in Me, act with adhyātmacetasā, become nirāśīḥ and nirmamaḥ, and then yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ. Fight the battle of life free from fever.

This is where the teaching becomes luminous. Shri Krishna is no longer only speaking about psychology. He is helping Arjuna stabilize himself. Mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasya. Offer all actions in Me. Renounce all actions in Me. 

This is not a poetic phrase meant only to sound devotional. It is a radical reorientation of the inner mindset. Normally we act from self-reference. I work so I can become something. I give so I can be seen in a certain way. I serve so I can feel worthy. Even noble action usually has a subtle thread of self around it. Shri Krishna is asking Arjuna to loosen that thread.

And here, very quietly, Shri Krishna is also allowing His deeper nature to come into view. He is not merely one person advising another person. He is the Divine ground in whom action can be offered. He is the inner reality beyond the shifting play of prakṛti. This will become much more explicit in the later chapters, but He is presenting it briefly here.

The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad says in 4.10

मायां तु प्रकृतिं विद्यान्मायिनं तु महेश्वरम् ।
तस्यावयवभूतैस्तु व्याप्तं सर्वमिदं जगत् ॥

māyāṃ tu prakṛtiṃ vidyān māyinaṃ tu maheśvaram
tasyāvayavabhūtais tu vyāptaṃ sarvam idaṃ jagat

Know prakṛti to be Māyā, and the great Lord to be the master of Māyā. This whole universe is pervaded by beings who are, as it were, His expressions.

This is very helpful here. Nature is moving, yes. The guṇas are functioning, yes. But nature is not the ultimate truth. There is a deeper Divine presence, the Lord of Māyā, in whom and through whom the whole field exists. So when Shri Krishna says mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasya, He is asking Arjuna not to remain trapped on the surface of life. Do not see only the movement of the magic. Remember the Magician. Do not see only the restless field. Remember the Divine ground in which that field appears.

What nirāśīḥ, nirmamaḥ, and vigatajvaraḥ really ask of us

Then Shri Krishna gives three inner conditions, and each one carries great practical depth.

First comes nirāśīḥ. This is often translated as free from expectation, or free from craving. It does not mean indifference. It does not mean one stops caring. It means the action is no longer turned into a bargain or a material transaction. Most of us do not simply act. We act and inwardly wait to be rewarded. We want results, appreciation, recognition, success, emotional return, visible confirmation that our effort has produced something for us. That inner leaning creates tension.

The body may be in the present, but the mind is already leaning into the future. Nirāśīḥ means the action is done with sincerity, but without the anxiety of future results.

Then comes nirmamaḥ, freedom from the sense of mine. This is one of the deepest knots in the human heart. Mine-ness is not only about possessions. It is about identity. My work, my child, my pain, my sacrifice, my service, my teaching, my progress, my wound. Through this language of mine, the ego keeps projecting itself into the world. Then every one of those projections becomes another place of anxiety and defensiveness.

When Shri Krishna says nirmamaḥ, He is not asking Arjuna to stop caring. He is asking him to care without being possessive. To act without constantly extending the ego’s territory through everything it touches.

Then comes the most vivid term of all, vigatajvaraḥ. Free from fever. Jvaraḥ literally means fever, and the word is so beautiful here because we know exactly what that inner fever feels like. The body may be still, but inside there is burning. The stomach is tight. The chest is restless. The mind keeps rehearsing outcomes. We keep checking, hoping, fearing, projecting. This is not just activity. This is overheated inner involvement.

Shri Krishna says yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ. Fight, but without that fever.

What a profound teaching this is. Do work without tension. Do your duty without inner fuss. Carry the burden of life without turning the burden into your identity. Most people think that noise, emotional intensity, and visible strain are signs of sincerity. But often they are only signs of inefficiency. A well-oiled machine works silently, without much fuss. The same is true of the human being. Spiritual strength is seen not only in what we can endure, but in how quietly we can carry it.

That is why Shri Krishna had already said in Bhagavad Gita 2.48, samatvaṃ yoga ucyate, equanimity is called yoga. And in Bhagavad Gita 2.50, yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam, yoga is skill in action. These are not separate teachings. They meet here. Real skill in action is not anxious. Real strength is not noisy. When the mind is inwardly steadier, action becomes cleaner, more precise, more intelligent, and less wasteful.

The Īśā Upaniṣad says in verse 2

कुर्वन्नेवेह कर्माणि जिजीविषेच्छतं समाः ।
एवं त्वयि नान्यथेतोऽस्ति न कर्म लिप्यते नरे ॥

kurvann eveha karmāṇi jijīviṣec chataṃ samāḥ
evaṃ tvayi nānyatheto’sti na karma lipyate nare

One should wish to live here for a hundred years while performing action. In this way alone, and not otherwise, action does not cling to a human being.

The Upaniṣad is saying the same thing. The answer is not simply to stop acting. The answer is to act in such a way that karma does not stick. That is the whole secret. Action continues, but bondage reduces. Life continues, but the ego loses its hold.

Why the mind resists this teaching

Now we have to be very honest, because this teaching sounds beautiful, but the mind does not surrender to it easily. The first reason is that ahaṃkāra depends on ownership. It wants to feel central. It wants to feel necessary. It wants to point to something and say this proves I matter. So when Shri Krishna says offer all actions, reduce expectation, soften mine-ness, and act without mind fever, the ego feels threatened. It immediately starts negotiating.

It says yes, this is true in principle, but not in this matter. Not in my situation. Not in this relationship. Not in this achievement that I built with so much effort. In this way the mind keeps many tightly closed rooms where it does not allow surrender to enter.

The second reason is that many of us live with a deep scarcity mindset. Not only materially, but emotionally and spiritually. Something in us keeps saying there is not enough love, not enough safety, not enough recognition, not enough room for me unless I hold tightly. Then expectation feels natural. Possessiveness feels reasonable. Anxiety feels like caring. Fever feels like sincerity. So when we hear vigatajvaraḥ, we may misunderstand it as coldness or irresponsibility. But Shri Krishna is not asking for coldness. He is asking for freedom from overheated egoic involvement.

There is another subtle danger as well. The mind can start using spiritual language to protect its old patterns. We may speak very nicely about guṇas, surrender, offering, witness-consciousness, and karma-yoga, while still being deeply reactive inside. We may say everything belongs to Bhagavān, but feel wounded when our opinion is not respected. We may talk about service, but still keep a quiet inner ledger of who noticed our effort. We may admire nirmamaḥ in words and still be fiercely possessive in practice.

That is why this teaching has to become our way of life, not just flowery language.

The Kaṭha Upaniṣad helps us see how powerful this inner machinery is. In Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 we read

आत्मानं रथिनं विद्धि शरीरं रथमेव तु ।
बुद्धिं तु सारथिं विद्धि मनः प्रग्रहमेव c ॥
इन्द्रियाणि हयानाहुर्विषयांस्तेषु गोचरान् ।
आत्मेन्द्रियमनोयुक्तं भोक्तेत्याहुर्मनीषिणः ॥

ātmānaṃ rathinaṃ viddhi śarīraṃ ratham eva tu
buddhiṃ tu sārathiṃ viddhi manaḥ pragraham eva ca
indriyāṇi hayān āhur viṣayāṃs teṣu gocarān
ātmendriyamanoyuktaṃ bhoktety āhur manīṣiṇaḥ

Know the Self as the lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot, the intellect as the charioteer, the mind as the reins, the senses as the horses, and the sense objects as their roads. The wise say that the one joined with body, mind, and senses is the experiencer.

Most of the time, we are not acting from freedom at all. Our inner equipment is pulling us. The senses run toward what they find pleasant. The mind clings to familiar patterns. The intellect, which should be guiding the whole system, often ends up serving desire rather than truth. Then the ego claims authorship of the entire movement. 

When Shri Krishna says not to unsettle those who are still identified with this machinery, He is speaking from complete awareness of how powerful these inner drivers are. Freedom does not come by snatching the reins out of someone’s hands. It comes by slowly helping them see what is pulling them.

What faith really means here

Then Shri Krishna makes a promise that is both simple and extraordinary, in verse 3.31:

ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवा:।
श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभि:॥

ye me matam idaṁ nityam anutiṣṭhanti mānavāḥ
Shraddhavanto ‘nasūyanto mucyante te ‘pi karmabhiḥ

Those who constantly practise this teaching of Mine, with profound faith and free from envy, are released from the bondage of karma.

Action creates bondage, yes. But there is a method by which the bondage aspect of action can be removed, so that action itself takes us to freedom. That is what makes the Bhagavad Gītā a song for the human soul. Millions and millions of people, though caught up in the battlefield of work, can also grow spiritually when they follow this philosophy. This is the great assurance given by Shri Krishna to all the working people of this world. And almost everybody is a worker, whether rich or poor, high or low in society. So this is a universal philosophy for all humanity.

The key words here are Shraddhavantaḥ, full of faith, and anasūyantaḥ, without envy or fault finding.

Shraddha is not blind belief. It is not “accept what I say because I am God.” It is something much more than that. It is a deep willing openness, a quality of heart that allows the teaching to enter and actually begin to work on us before the mind has fully analyzed and approved it. Think of it as the opposite of defensive resistance. When someone speaks a truth that touches something real in us, but our intellect immediately begins constructing counterarguments, finding faults, scanning for weaknesses, that is the absence of Shraddha. 

And when we look at this through bhakti, the whole teaching becomes warmer still. Nārada Bhakti Sūtra 19 says

नारदस्तु तदर्पिताखिलाचारता तद्विस्मरणे परमव्याकुलतेति॥ १९॥ 

nāradaḥ-tu tad-arpitākhilācāratā tad-vismaraṇe parama-vyākulateti. 

According to Sage Narada, when all thoughts, all words, and all deeds are given up to the Lord, and when the least forgetfulness of Bhagavan makes one intensely miserable, then we can be said to be experiencing divine bhakti.

tad-arpita-akhila-ācāratā – “dedicating one’s complete conduct to That”

Not just formal worship. Not just meditation hours. Akhila means all, entire, complete. Every breath, every gesture, every thought becomes continuous prayer. 

tad-vismaraṇe parama-vyākulatā – “in forgetting That, supreme distress”

So the key is to offer everything to Him with complete faith. It is not that questions are wrong. Questions are essential. But there is a real difference between honest inquiry that wants to understand more deeply and the kind of questioning that is actually defending the ego’s current arrangement against anything that might disturb it. Shraddha is the quality that keeps the heart open enough for the teaching to land, to take root, rather than bouncing off the hard surface of our intellect.

And then anasūyā, freedom from fault-finding, which is a quality rarely discussed but enormously important. Asūyā is the tendency to find fault, to look for what is wrong, to resent another person’s insight or freedom. When we encounter a teaching that genuinely challenges our comfortable self-image, one very common response is to attack the teaching itself or the person who gave it. “Who does he think he is?” “Easy for him to say.” “This doesn’t apply to modern times.” 

Sometimes these are genuine concerns. But sometimes, if we are brave enough to examine it, the fault-finding is a shield. It allows us to dismiss the very thing that could set us free. Because if the teaching is true and freedom is genuinely available, then it means our bondage would be our own making. And that is a deeply uncomfortable realization. It is much easier to believe that life is just inherently difficult than to face the possibility that we have been participating in the patterns that cause us pain and suffering. The ego resists this acknowledgement, and asūyā is one of its most effective tools of defense.

How this shows up in ordinary life

All this matters only if it touches how we actually live day to day. Let us bring it into ordinary life.

Consider the workplace. Most people are acting from mixed motives, and if we are honest, we are too. There is ambition, insecurity, comparison, the fear of being overlooked, the need to prove value. Now suppose someone has understood, at least intellectually, that lasting peace does not come from position or praise. If that person begins to look down on others who still crave those things, the teaching has become ego food. A wiser response would be to work steadily, remain competent, and quietly create a less fear-driven atmosphere around oneself.

That may mean appreciating others sincerely. It may mean mentoring without judgment. It may mean refusing manipulation while still doing excellent work. That is what it means not to unsettle the attached while still living from a deeper center.

It also shows what vigatajvaraḥ looks like in practice. Many people are exhausted not because of work, but because of the fever around work. The constant comparison. The silent resentment. The need to be seen. The running mental calculation of whether one is being valued enough. A surprising amount of fatigue comes from that inner noise. When some of that fever reduces, work feels lighter, even if the workload remains heavy.

Close relationships are an even more intimate testing ground. In marriage, in family life, in caregiving, we rarely do only the outer action. We also carry hidden expectations. We help and want appreciation. We support and want to be understood. We sacrifice and want the sacrifice remembered. Then when the response does not come, hurt quickly comes. We start saying no one sees me, no one values what I do, I always give more. There may be some truth in the pain, but the mind adds fever to the pain through expectation and mine-ness.

This is where nirāśīḥ and nirmamaḥ become very practical. Shri Krishna is not asking us to become dry or distant in our relationships. He is asking us to love with less transaction, to serve with less bargaining, to carry our roles without making them the center of our selfhood. Imagine how much would change if a little less expectation entered our acts of care. Imagine how much warmth would return if love did not keep turning into possession.

The same is true in disappointment. We make an effort and it fails. We offer love and it is not returned as we hoped. We try to help and we are misunderstood. These things hurt. The Gita does not deny that. But often the greater bondage comes not from the event itself, but from the heated story we build around it. That is fever. Vigatajvaraḥ means not adding unnecessary suffering to natural pain.

A quieter way to live

So what is Shri Krishna finally asking of us in these verses. He is asking for mature participation in life. See the force of conditioning, but do not become cynical. See attachment in yourself and in others, but do not become harsh. See the guṇas at work, but do not use that as an excuse for laziness or irresponsibility. Live with Shraddha. Let the teaching humble you. Let it make you gentler with human struggle, including your own.

Then slowly a different quality begins to enter life. We no longer feel such a strong need to display what we know. We are not in such a hurry to appear spiritually advanced. We stop disturbing others just because their present stage makes us uncomfortable. A quieter steadiness begins to come into our action. Our motives become a little cleaner. Inwardly we become more available to what is true.

This does not mean perfection arrives all at once. The shift is subtler than that. The center from which we live begins to change. Action becomes less about defending ourselves, and more about service, offering, and responsibility. Insight becomes less about standing above others and more about how we should lead our own lives. The fever begins to lessen, not because the heart has become cold, but because something warmer, deeper, and more stable has begun to take its place.

That is the beauty of this teaching. Shri Krishna does not ask us to leave life in order to find freedom. He asks us to live life in a way that takes us towards liberation. Action no longer remains merely a field of bondage. It becomes a path to freedom.

kṛṣṇadaasa
Servant of Krishna