Pulling the plug on the Fan of Karma

Hare Krsna-Below we have several short bits of info from various lectures/purports by Srila Prabhupada where he so easily explains how we can act in this material world , be blissfully happy by this action AND at the same time experience NO karmic reaction to these acts.
OR, we can choose to ignore our spiritual masters teachings and again become implicated in past karma. We all know his example of pulling the plug on the fan or karma and then because of misuse of our eternal freedom to act, we again return to producing more bad karma for ourselves.
He starts out below at an initiation lecture explaining how an iron rod become fire when kept in a fire long enough. Similarly, we have to keep ourselves IN that fire of Krsna Conscious activities, all the time in order to produce the effect of fire, or complete KC,otherwise, we must go thru the gradual process of in the fire and out of the fire before we understand being out of the fire means only perpetual suffering thru re birth with only “one “pinch” of material desire.
As Srila Prabhupada has said many times, “this Krsna Consciousness is not for the less intelligent.”

damaghosa das

Initiation lecture Sydney April 2 1972
The example can be given: just like an iron rod. It, put into the fire, it become warm, then warmer, warmer, and at last, it becomes red hot. When the iron rod is red hot, it is no longer iron rod; it is fire. Similarly, if you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized. Completely spiritualized means that no more material activities. That is possible. If we follow the process, we can turn our life from material contamination to pure spiritual life. And that will help us going back to home, back to Godhead. That’s all.

…..So service we must give. That is our constitutional position. But that service is meant for rendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So long we remain forgetful where our service should be given, that is called material life. When we come to that consciousness, that “I have to serve Krsna” that is spiritual life. That is difference between material life and spiritual life. We are serving. There is no doubt. We cannot be master. Any one of you who are present in this meeting, none of you can say that “I am the master.” Every one of you, servant to somebody. That is our position. But that service is being rendered to mistaken places; therefore we are not happy, neither the person whom we are serving, they are happy. This is the position. But as soon as you serve Krsna, Śyāmasundara, then you become happy, the whole world becomes happy. This is a great science. Try to understand.

Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 2-4-Los Angeles, May 6, 1970

Prabhupāda: Again from the beginning. (devotees repeat) Again. (devotees repeat) This is very important verse. Evaṁ tvayi nānyathe…, nānyathā ato asti na karma lipyate nare. If you know it that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, in this way if you live for hundreds of years and do your duties, there will be no reaction. The very thing is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: yajñārthāt karmaṇo ‘nyatra loko ‘yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ [Bg. 3.9].

Except working for Kṛṣṇa, any work will bind you, good or bad. If you do good work, you’ll have to enjoy, so-called enjoyment. And if you do bad work, then you have to suffer. But if you work for Kṛṣṇa, there is no such reaction. Na karma lipyate nare

SB 3.24.12P- Brahmā praises Kardama because he carried out the orders of the spiritual master in toto and without cheating. A conditioned soul in the material world has the disqualification of cheating. He has four disqualifications: he is sure to commit mistakes, he is sure to be illusioned, he is prone to cheat others, and his senses are imperfect. But if one carries out the order of the spiritual master by disciplic succession, or the paramparā system, he overcomes the four defects. Therefore, knowledge received from the bona fide spiritual master is not cheating. Any other knowledge [or activity] which is manufactured by the conditioned soul is cheating only.

Letter to: Nityananda — Delhi 12 November, 1971 : 71-11-12 :

An example of summary punishment is this: If you are sentenced to be hanged but instead you are given a simple pinprick, that is very nice. Krishna minimizes the devotee’s suffering to the lowest. So long as one is engaged in devotional service, he is immune to the reactions of his past sinful activities, but if he chooses to give up this devotional service, then he has to undergo all these reactions.

philosophy discussions with Hayagrive –Plotinus —

Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice. Anyone who takes it seriously, he becomes immediately liberated, because liberation means to be engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service. This is liberation. We are engaged in māyā’s service. That is our bondage. But service we have to render. We are servant—either māyā’s servant or Kṛṣṇa’s servant. Servant is our constitutional position. Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa dāsa..Caitanya Mahāprabhu says. Our real identity is eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. So even if he is…, are in this material body, if you are engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service, that is liberation. Hitvā anyathā rūpaṁ sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ. When we give up our otherwise life… “Otherwise life” means to be engaged in māyā’s service—as the head of the family, head of the community, head or member of this and… We have designated in so many ways. So that is our conditional life. And the same service, when we render to Kṛṣṇa cent percent, we are liberated. Sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ. That is mukti. When his senses are completely engaged in the service of Hṛṣīkeśa-Hṛṣīkeśa is another name of Kṛṣṇa—that is called bhakti. Bhakti means the activities of liberated life. One may understand or not understand; if he is actually engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service, under the direction of spiritual master, he is liberated.But if he voluntarily accepts again māyā’s service, then he is become conditioned. This is the secret