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In the Bhagavad-gītā (2.40) Lord Kṛṣṇa states that God-centered activities are so valuable that just

When he realizes the authority of the Personality of Godhead – Vāsudeva, or Kṛṣṇa – it is to be understood

conditioned soul is accustomed to working for sense gratification – for his own selfish interest, immediate or An ordinary man works for his own sense enjoyment, and when this principle of sense enjoyment is extended to include his society, nation or humanity in general, it assumes various attractive names such as altruism , socialism, communism, nationalism and humanitarianism. There is no harm in becoming a family man, or an altruist, a socialist, a communist, a nationalist or

This tendency is visible not only individually but also collectively in the community, society and nation There is a hard struggle for life by all kinds of living entities, and the Vedas say that this is quite This process is called transmigration of the soul or karma-bandhana, bondage by one’s work. does not act according to his prescribed duties, he transgresses the law of nature and binds himself more and more to the cycle of birth and death in the many species of life.

Other life forms are also subject to the cycle of birth and death, but when the living entity attains Karma, akarma and vikarma are very clearly described in the Bhagavad-gītā. Actions that free one from the cycle of birth and death are called akarma. And actions that are performed through the misuse of one’s freedom and that direct one to the lower life in this world or in heaven, but more advanced men want to be free altogether from the actions and reactions

guarantee their executor protection from the danger of sliding down into the evolutionary process of birth and