Daksah means active, not lazy, sleeping. This is not good. Nidrahara-vihara. Everyone has to conquer over sleeping, so that is called daksah. And daksah means expert. Whatever business is entrusted to him, he does it very nicely, daksa. Just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, he was no…, had no interest in material things. His father’s estate was very big, and he was not interested. But at a time when there was a political situation, he tackled it very nicely. This is the example of daksa. There was some political controversy between Raghunatha dasa Gosvami’s father’s uncle, father, uncle, and the government minister. So the minister, in order to take advantage, he came to arrest Raghunatha Gosvami’s father and uncle, and they fled away from the house. So the minister arrested Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, the son, because if he was chastised, he’ll disclose the secret where his father and uncle has fled. And so Raghunatha dasa Gosvami — it is a long story —
tackled the situation so nicely that there was peace between the minister and his father and uncle, and the misunderstanding was settled up. So this is called daksa. Not that because he has become Krsna conscious, and Vaisnava, he is unable to do anything of this material world. No. One who is Krsna conscious, he is conscious of everything and he knows how to deal with them. That is called daksa. Not that “Because I have become Krsna conscious I have no knowledge in other things.” No. You must have, if not complete, to know something of everything. That is intelligence, to know something of everything and to know everything of something. That is wanted. You may be expert, a devotee. You know everything of devotional service, but you should not be callous. You know something of everything. That is called daksa.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.12.6 — April 17, 1976, Bombay