For Unlimited Bliss We Have to Be Who We Are

As long as we keep endeavoring to find genuine happiness and satisfaction on a false platform of the self we are sure to be baffled. This is why we should take help from those who have realized the actual nature of the self in our pursuit of fulfillment. The false platform that I am referring to is the material body. As long as we consider ourselves to be these material bodies, which are destined to get sick, get old, and die, there is no way that we can be genuinely happy. This is so because any happiness which is limited or restricted is not real happiness. Even while we are enjoying it we are experiencing the anxiety of knowing that it will sooner or later be finished. This is why material happiness is call maya-sukhaya, illusory happiness. Real happiness must be completely free from the even slightest tinge of anxiety. This pure happiness is only available on the spiritual platform. It is tasted when we know and realize our factual identities as the eternal servants of Krishna or God and sincerely engage in His service. This is when we experience the unlimited bliss of knowing who we are actually are and are thus re-situated in our original constitutional position of unlimited happiness.

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Question: ​​​​​​​Should We Stop Doing Work?​​​

Dear Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In today's thought of the day, you have quoted this verse:

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

"Abandon all varieties of duties and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

Does this mean we stop doing any work? Because whatever we do, it is sure to generate some reactions. How the world will exist then?

Thank you for your precious time.

Rashmi Tangri

Answer: No. We Should Work for Krishna.

From: Tallinn, Estonia

My Dear Rashmi,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Krishna means exactly what He says. We have absolutely no other duty than serving Him. However, this does not mean that we should give up our occupational duties. This means that we should offer our occupational duties in Krishna's service just as Arjuna did when he engaged his occupational duty as a warrior in Krishna's service.

These occupational duties are temporary. Just like as a youth one is a student. Then one accepts a profession. And then one becomes retired. These duties are not the constitutional nature of the self because they come and go. But what remains in all phases of life is that I am the eternal servant of Krishna or God.

Occupational duties offered fully in Krishna's service do not generate any karmic reactions.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.
Your ever well-wisher,

Sankarshan Das Adhikari