If all beings within the material world are conditioned by the modes, how does one get out?

Purification through Niskama Karma Yoga

 As one should not take medicine prescribed to
One can become perfect by doing all the duties of someone else, one should stick to his own prescribed
his respective varna for the “Lord’s pleasure duties and not try to take someone else’s
 Engage in one’s own occupation, even though imperfectly than
to accept another & perform perfectly
• (a) Basis of prescribing occupational duties
for different varnas
• Based on different modes of nature
• (b) Example of abominable natures (due to
contamination by modes) of occupational
duties
• For a Brahamana – Has to kill animals
in sacrifices
• For a Ksatriya – Has to be violent to kill
his enemies or tell lies for diplomacy
• • (d) Conclusion (Supporting Ref. Bg. 3.9)
For a Vaishya – However pious he may be,
sometimes he has to hide his profit to stay
in business or sometimes black-marketing
• For a Sudra – Serving a bad master
• (c) How to avoid abominable nature of
different kinds of work and thus purify all
the defects of a particular varna
• No work (Any of the four varnas) is
abominable, if performed in the service of
the Supreme Lord
• Example of action for the satisfaction of
the
Lord – Arjuna fighting on the battlefield
• No fear of degradation in such action
• Everyone should be engaged according to
the particular mode of nature he has
acquired
• Decide to work only to serve the
Supreme cause of the Supreme Lord
 “It being the case that all work is covered with fault, the person on the first level of
sannyasa rejects the faulty aspects of work—namely the mentality of being the doer and
the expectation of profit. Thus in due course of time, he perfects his sadhana

The perfection of jnana-yoga is to understand the nature of the self

and it’s relationship with Krishna, thus bhakti is the culmination of jnana
One who is self-controlled and completely unattached, can engage in Jnana-
yoga and can obtain highest perfect stage of freedom from reaction