Lord Caitanya's Movement is the Ultimate Adventure

To participate in Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement for the deliverance of all the fallen souls of this world back to home, back to Godhead is the ultimate adventure, the most relishable of all nectars. Therefore devotees who share Lord Caitanya's mood of compassion for the lost souls suffering in the cycle of birth and death beg Him for the mercy of being fully absorbed in assisting Him in His most sublime world deliverance mission. They are even prepared to take birth after birth in this material world for the deliverance of the bewildered souls, if this is what the Lord desires.

Devotees Chant for the Deliverance of the Fallen Souls

Devotees Chant for the Deliverance of the Fallen Souls

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Question: How to Engage My Occupation in Krishna's Service?

Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have a question. In Bhagavad-gita 18.46 Lord Krishna says:

yataḥ pravṛttir bhūtānāṁ
yena sarvam idaṁ tatam
sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya
siddhiṁ vindati mānavaḥ

"By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a man can attain perfection through performing his own work."

I wish to learn from you that as an engineering student, how can I worship Krishna through my work/studies? I have the idea that I can worship Krishna only through the nine forms of devotional activities: sravanam, kirtanam visnoh, smaranam, etc. Can you please provide me the guidelines regarding how we are supposed to worship Krishna by our occupational duty?

Awaiting your enlightening response. Thanking you in anticipation.

Your servant,
Sushant Kulkarni,
Pune, India

Answer: Join Our Monthly Donor Program

As a student you can arrange for me to give Krishna conscious lectures on your campus when I come to Pune twice a year. And once you begin working and earning you need to join our monthly donor program. Occupational duty means earning money, which is very much needed to push forward the Krishna consciousness movement. Therefore we have our monthly donor program for anyone who would like to follow Krishna’s order to engage their work in His service. This is real love, to give service to the Lord by our work. Anyone who feels inspired to dovetail their job with Krishna should write to me personally at sda@backtohome.com in this regard and we will instruct them how they can do wonderful, meaningful service for Krishna through their occupational duty.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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