Unconcerned with acquiring more property, as well as protecting what he already has, he simply performs his duty to the best of his ability, and leaves the results to Krishna. Thus detached, he is never subject to the consequences of his actions, good or bad. In a way, he does not act, since his acts are not subject to the law of karma, and therefore do not entail any material consequences for him. Any other form of action, contrary to Krishna consciousness, is contrary to the norms revealed by the holy scriptures, is called “guilty action”, and shackles its author.
The Lord continues: The man who is thus enlightened has complete control over his mind and intellect, renounces all sense of possession and acts only to provide for his strict vital needs. Thus neither sin nor the consequences of sin reach him.
The Krishna conscious being, because he knows that he is a tiny part of the Lord, an integral part of His Divine Person, is aware that his role in relation to Lord Krishna does not depend on himself, but on God. Everything is done under the guidance of Lord Krishna.
The pure devotee of Krishna always unites his desires and interests with those of God, the Supreme Person, and constantly acts in harmony with the All, Krishna. The Krishna conscious man takes care of his body, but only for the purpose of using it in the service of the Lord. He is thus protected from the consequences of everything he does, and is thus free from all karma.
The Lord states to this effect: The Lord stands in the heart of all beings, and directs the wanderings of all, each one being as if on a machine made of material energy (the body).
All of us, without exception, are made for the same purpose, to serve Krishna.
In truth, although we are all individual spiritual beings distinct from Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, we remain eternally tiny fragments or parcels of God, integral parts of His divine Person.
Only ignorance of the truth and the influence of maya, the illusion, make us believe that the material and ephemeral links with our family are more important than the spiritual and eternal links with Krishna. The Lord reveals to us that the living being, the eternal servant of Krishna, cannot be separated from His Divine Person, and that his feeling of existing outside Him is pure illusion. The separate being, as an integral part of the Supreme Lord, has a definite duty towards Him, which is to serve Him with love and devotion. If he forgets this, he is forced to inhabit the bodies of celestial beings, human beings, animals and plants for endless periods of time. All these bodies have their origin in forgetting the devotional service offered to the Lord. However, this veil of illusion can be removed at once, if one serves Krishna with love and devotion, in God consciousness.
Krishna, in His aspect as the Supreme Soul, is the refuge of all beings, and when misguided spiritual entities develop their Krishna consciousness, they are considered to be on the way to liberation, and liberation is to regain one's original natural relationship with Krishna, that of eternal servant.