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A living entity cannot steadily remain either in sense enjoyment or in renunciation. Change is going on perpetually, and we cannot be happy in either state, because of our eternal constitutional Sense gratification does not endure for long, and it is therefore called capala-sukha, or flickering For example, an ordinary family man who works very hard day and night and is successful in giving comforts higher or lower than the last one.

If our body at present is engaged in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then it is guaranteed that A human being engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, even if unable to complete the course of bhakti-yoga, takes birth in the higher divisions of human society so that he can automatically further his advancement in Kṛṣṇa Therefore, all bona fide activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are amṛta, or permanent.

Every service has some attractive feature that drives the servitor progressively on and on. Every one of us within this world is perpetually engaged in some sort of service, and the impetus for Driven by affection for his wife and children, a family man works day and night. of his country and countrymen. That force which drives the philanthropist, the householder, and the nationalist is called rasa, or a

Mundane workers labor very hard day and night in order to relish a certain kind of rasa that is understood The relish or taste of the mundane rasa does not long endure, and therefore mundane workers are always Material engagement means accepting a particular status for some time and then changing it. This position of changing back and forth is technically known as bhoga-tyāga, which means a position of alternating sense enjoyment and renunciation.