Study a Verse

• The word yathā-kramam (“step by step”) means that after first realizing oneself to be different from the gross material body one should then progressively detach oneself from material mental activities.
• When one correctly identifies oneself as eternal spiritual form, one achieves the real fruit of knowledge.
• When we falsely assume that temporary, illusory material objects are real, knowledge of our eternal spiritual form is covered by ignorance.

The purport's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Uncertainty → Clarity. The coming separation makes the instruction personally urgent.

Chapters 10–20 of Canto 11: Kṛṣṇa's teachings on self, yoga and wisdom. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 10: The Nature of Fruitive Activity

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

When one has come to understand something of the truth of the self, he should give up material work performed out of duty and simply engage himself in the service of the bona fide spiritual master, who is the manifest representative of the Personality of Godhead.