Prabhupāda: Therefore it is called karma-miśra-bhakti. It is not unalloyed bhakti.
Reporter: No, no.
Prabhupāda: Unalloyed bhakti, there is no karma.
Reporter: There's no karma.
Prabhupāda: There's no karma. That is very high state. But originally...
Reporter: Akarma, then it comes akarma.
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That is very high state. But originally...
Reporter: Akarma, then it comes akarma.
Prabhupāda: Ah, akarma.
Reporter: Sannyāsa.
Prabhupāda: No, more than akarma.
Reporter: Sannyāsa?
Prabhupāda: More than a... Sannyāsī is akarma, yes. Sannyāsī is also not akarma. Sannyāsa means... That is also described in Bhagavad-gītā. Anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ (BG 6.1). That is also karma. Kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ sa sannyāsī. "It is my duty"—on this principle when one works, he is sannyāsī. He does not work for himself, he works for Kṛṣṇa. And that is sannyāsī. Anāśritaḥ karma-phalam. Because if you are doing something, there must be some result. But you do not take the result. Anāśritaḥ karma-phalam. Kāryam: it is my duty. Kāryam. Karma karot... Karma karoti yaḥ. That is karma. Sa sannyāsī. So how you can say in sannyāsa there is no karma? Karma is always there. But you have to see for what for this karma is being done The end justify the means. What is the end of this karma? So when the end is Kṛṣṇa, to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā (CC Madhya 19.167).
Reporter: Yeah. But what is the meaning of akarma?
Prabhupāda: Akarma means that does not produce another karma. Or sometimes akarma means laziness.
Reporter: No, no, (laughs), in the sense of Gītā.
Prabhupāda: Karmaṇo hy api boddhavyam. So akarma means, that is bhaktyā. Akarma means, just like yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra karma-bandhanaḥ. Anyatra karma-bandhanaḥ: when you become bound by the result, the action of the karma, that is karma. And when you act yajñārthe, for Viṣṇu, for Kṛṣṇa, that is not karma, that is akarma. It does not produce, karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54). In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said, "Those who are engaged in devotional service, they're not producing any more karma.