Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Fifty: "A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad action even in this life. Therefore strive for this yoga, O Arjuna, which is the art of all work." (BG 2.50)
Fifty-one, "The wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in the Lord and free themselves from the cycle of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action in the material world."
Prabhupāda: Yes. There is purport?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. There's a little more to that śloka.
Prabhupāda: All right. Finish.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "In this way they can attain that state beyond all miseries."
Prabhupāda: Read it again.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "The wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in the Lord and free themselves from the cycle of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action in the material world. In this way they can attain that state beyond all miseries."
Prabhupāda: How easy it is. You take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you overcome the cycle of birth and death. And as soon as you overcome the cycle of birth and death, you overcome all miseries. Because birth and death means this material body. The living entity, spirit soul, has no birth and death. And anyone who possesses this material body has to undergo the threefold miseries of the material world.
A similar passage is there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the other day, as I was speaking to you, nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma (SB 5.5.4). All these people, they are acting in a way which they ought not to have done. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ. But they are acting as madmen. Why? Yad indriya-prītaya, for satisfaction of the senses. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti na sādhu manye. This is not good, because he does not know that he has achieved this material body by working in that way in his previous life. Again he is working in that way. So he'll have to accept again this material body; therefore he's miser. He's not properly utilizing.