na hi kramaś ced iha mṛtyu-janmanoḥ
Å›arÄ«riṇÄm astu tad Ätma-karmabhiḥ
yaḥ sneha-pÄÅ›o nija-sarga-vá¹›ddhaye
svayaṠkṛtas te tam imaṠvivṛścasi
na - not; hi - indeed; kramaḥ - chronological order; cet - if; iha - in this material world; má¹›tyu - of death; janmanoḥ - and of birth; Å›arÄ«riṇÄm - of the conditioned souls, who have accepted material bodies; astu - let it be; tat - that; Ätma-karmabhiḥ - by the results of one's karma (fruitive activities); yaḥ - that which; sneha-pÄÅ›aḥ - bondage of affection; nija-sarga - Your own creation; vá¹›ddhaye - to increase; svayam - personally; ká¹›taḥ - made; te - by You; tam - that; imam - this; vivṛścasi - you are cutting.
As stated in the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ, karmÄṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhÄjÄm: one who has taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional service, is not affected by the results of karma. In this verse, karma has been stressed on the basis of karma-mÄ«mÄá¹sÄ philosophy, which says that one must act according to his karma and that a supreme controller must give the results of karma. The subtle laws of karma, which are controlled by the Supreme, cannot be understood by ordinary conditioned souls. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that one who can understand Him and how He is acting, controlling everything by subtle laws, immediately becomes freed by His grace. That is the statement of Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (karmÄṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhÄjÄm). One should take to devotional service without reservations and surrender everything to the supreme will of the Lord. That will make one happy in this life and the next.