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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.30

కేచిత్ కుర్వన్తి కర్మాణి కామైరహతచేతస: । త్యజన్త: ప్రకృతీర్దైవీర్యథాహం లోకసఙ్గ్రహమ్ ॥ ౩౦ ॥
kecit kurvanti karmāṇi
[kechit kurvanti karmaani]
kāmair ahata-cetasaḥ
[kaamair ahata-chetasah]
tyajantaḥ prakṛtīr daivīr
[tyajantah prakriteer daiveer]
yathāhaṁ loka-saṅgraham
[yathaaham loka-sangraham]
kecit — some people kurvanti — execute karmāṇi — worldly duties kāmaiḥ — by desires ahata — undisturbed cetasaḥ — whose minds tyayantaḥ — giving up prakṛtīḥ — propensities daivīḥ — created by the Supreme Lord’s material energy yathā — as aham — I loka - saṅgraham — to instruct the people in general .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
kecit kurvanti karmāṇi
kecit
some people
kurvanti
execute
karmāṇi
worldly duties
kāmair ahata-cetasaḥ
kāmaiḥ
by desires
ahata
undisturbed
cetasaḥ
whose minds
tyajantaḥ prakṛtīr daivīr
tyayantaḥ
giving up
prakṛtīḥ
propensities
daivīḥ
created by the Supreme Lord’s material energy
yathāhaṁ loka-saṅgraham
yathā
as
aham
I
loka - saṅgraham
to instruct the people in general .
  • kāmaiḥ — by desires
    Instrumental plural of kāma. The verse's contrastive force: most are battered by kāmas. The exceptional kecit (some) are not. Gauḍīyas: kāmas are the lash; bhakti's hide is leather.
  • ahata - cetasaḥ — whose minds are undisturbed
    Compound: a- (not) + hata (struck) + cetas (mind). The mind that does not register the blow of kāma. Gauḍīyas equate this with the bhakti-derived sthita-prajña of BG 2 — stability rooted in Kṛṣṇa-absorption, not in mental discipline alone.
  • prakṛtīḥ — propensities
    Accusative plural of prakṛti — here, natural inclinations / material modes. The verse's tyajantaḥ-prakṛtīḥ describes renunciation of the modes that drive ordinary work.
  • daivīḥ — created by the Supreme Lord's material energy
    Adjective of daivī — divine, but here means 'of māyā' (BG 7.14 — daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā). Gauḍīya gloss insists: daivī-māyā is Kṛṣṇa's energy, not a separate independent force.
  • loka - saṅgraham — to instruct the people in general
    Compound: loka (world) + saṅgraha (gathering, holding together). The same phrase appears in BG 3.20-25 of Janaka and Kṛṣṇa Himself. Gauḍīyas: the perfected bhakta works for loka-saṅgraha, not for personal reward.
Having renounced all material propensities, which spring from the Lord’s illusory energy, some people execute worldly duties with their minds undisturbed by mundane desires. They act as I do, to instruct the general populace.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Having renounced all material propensities, which spring from the Lord's illusory energy, some people execute worldly duties with their minds undisturbed by mundane desires. They act as I do, to instruct the general populace.
Commentary

I know that you did not take sannyasa like others even though you are very renounced. Some ,being detached, perform activities with minds unattached to desirable objects. Others perform activity in order to give up their mental natures produced by the Lord’s will, their contaminated state of subtle desires for material enjoyment. As an example of the first type, I perform activities as they should be done to teach people.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Some do their household duties without attachment. But some give up material life completely. “Some may take the latter option, but the first option is not possible.” But I act in this way to teach the people.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Though not completely overcome by desire, some, with discrimination (kecit), get married and follow conduct of a householder (karmāṇi) to destroy the attraction for enjoying.

Related values
Sthitaprajna (Steady Wisdom)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Discriminative WisdomAbhaya (Fearlessness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)
Related verses
Concepts
Karma

The Lord Himself plays the householder, runs Dvārakā, fights wars, gives instructions — and His own mind is utterly unaffected. He is naming Sudāmā as belonging to this rare set: those who do worldly work without being worked by it. The image is Kṛṣṇa Himself.

King Janaka untouched by Mithilā's burning

When Janaka heard that Mithilā was burning, he remained on his throne unmoved — 'nothing of mine is burning' (Mahābhārata, Śānti Parva). He ruled his kingdom while internally untouched by it.

Gauḍīyas read Janaka as the prototype of v.30's kecit — those who execute karmāṇi with ahata-cetas. The Gauḍīya gloss insists: Janaka was a niṣkāma-karma-yogī progressing toward Vaiṣṇavism, not an Advaitin merging into Brahman.

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