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they are not inebriated. They are respectful, grave, compassionate and without false prestige. They are friendly,
poetic, expert and silent. (CC Madhya 22. 78-80)

These qualities will appear by the mercy of Krishna and by chanting His holy names Hare Krishna/Hare Rama
while performing pure acts of devotion. Lord Krishna stresses this point:

yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā / sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ
harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā / manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ

“All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in
the body of one who has developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. On
the other hand, a person devoid of devotional service and engaged in material activities has no good qualities.
Even if he is adept at the practice of mystic yoga or the honest endeavor of maintaining his family and relatives,
he must be driven by his own mental speculations and must engage in the service of the Lord’s external energy.
How can there be any good qualities in such a man?” (SB 5.18.12)
Such a pure devotee is free of all material contamination and attains the transcendental state of spiritual
happiness and steady intelligence.

karmaṇy akarma yaḥ paśyed / akarmaṇi ca karma yaḥ
sa buddhimān manuṣyeṣu / sa yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt
“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental
position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.” (Bg 4.18) Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada further
explains:

“A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is naturally free from the bonds of karma. His activities are all performed
for Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, he does not enjoy or suffer any of the effects of work. Consequently, he is intelligent in
human society, even though he is engaged in all sorts of activities for Kṛṣṇa. Akarma means without reaction to
work. The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear, so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling
block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, he engages himself in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Because
everything is done for Kṛṣṇa, he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge of this service. Those who
are engaged in this process are known to be without desire for personal sense gratification. The sense of eternal
servitorship to Kṛṣṇa makes one immune to all sorts of reactionary elements of work.” (Bg 4.18 – purport)

4-vidya-vadhu-jivanam means the devotee becomes filled with transcendental knowledge. The real process of
knowledge is explained by Lord Krishna, who enumerates twenty points of real knowledge that a properly
educated person will manifest. Anything besides these twenty points is considered ignorance.

“Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master;
cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the
perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with
children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and
unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people;
accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth – all these I declare
to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.” (Bg 13. 8-12)

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