Blessed by the Most Compassionate Spiritual Master

By the grace of Lord Sri Krishna I have been blessed with the shelter of the most compassionate spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Even though I am highly unqualified and unfit to approach such an exalted saintly person, Srila Prabhupada has so kindly granted me shelter at his lotus feet. And he has also blessed me and his other disciples with the mission of re-spiritualizing the entire human society. Thus the purpose of my existence on this planet is to continue expanding my own Krishna consciousness more and more while simultaneously absorbing myself fully in pushing forward the Krishna consciousness movement more and more and more for the deliverance of the suffering humanity from the all-devouring jaws of birth, death, old age, and disease.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

My Most Beloved Spiritual Master:
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaHis Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Be Krishna Conscious at Work?

I would like to know how to be Krishna conscious at work. How does one achieve perfection in the discharge of one's duties?

Your eternal servant,

Acharya Das

Answer: Offer the Results to Krishna

It is very nicely explained in the Bhagavad-gita chapter 18, text 11 how to be Krishna conscious at work:

na hi deha-bhṛtā śakyaḿ
tyaktuḿ karmāṇy aśeṣataḥ
yas tu karma-phala-tyāgī
sa tyāgīty abhidhīyate

"It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to give up all activities. But he who renounces the fruits of action is called one who has truly renounced."

Srila Prabhupada explains the above verse as follows in his purport:

"It is said in Bhagavad-gita that one can never give up work at any time. Therefore he who works for Krishna and does not enjoy the fruitive results, who offers everything to Krishna, is actually a renouncer. There are many members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness who work very hard in their office or in the factory or some other place, and whatever they earn they give to the Society. Such highly elevated souls are actually sannyasis and are situated in the renounced order of life. It is clearly outlined here how to renounce the fruits of work and for what purpose fruits should be renounced."

Since the fruit of our work is income, how we spend that income will either make our Krishna consciousness or break our Krishna consciousness. The idea is that we should live as simply as possible so that we can donate as much as possible of our earnings for expanding the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world. This will automatically bring us perfection in the discharge of our duties.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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