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Whatever our varṇa or āśrama, however, the perfection of our work is to satisfy Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa.

be a class of merchants and farmers, the vaiśyas, who trade and perform agricultural duties such as cow

Foolish people say that the Vaiṣṇavas do not work, but the Vaiṣṇavas work for Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours While we are in this material world, we have to work, but we work for Kṛṣṇa. Unless one works for Kṛṣṇa, all his labor is adharma, irreligious sense gratification.

are sinless, but those within this material world are all fruitive workers, whether acting piously or Thus in proportion to the extent of one’s religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his karma in the next.”

And how does one who accepts his position as a servant of Kṛṣṇa work?

not the body but rather the owner of the body, just as we are not our apartment but rather the owner or That is the effect of ahaṅkāra, false ego, or false conception of proprietorship.

One who is in the mode of ignorance cannot know what his past life was or what his next life will be; Somehow or other one must be enlightened about his past, present, and future. and therefore everyone thinks his present body to be everything, without consideration of the past or

Lord Kṛṣṇa confirms this in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.13),

Madhya-līlā 20.108): “The constitutional position of the living entity is that he is eternally a servant of Kṛṣṇa

This light is Vedic knowledge, which one can understand when one is elevated to the mode of goodness or

The real aim of life is to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, and varṇāśrama-dharma is the institution of that ideal in human As Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.13), cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ: “I have created

Since we have to work, we should work for Kṛṣṇa. Then we are saved from all sinful reactions.

entities belong to the marginal energy because they can come under the influence of either the internal or

Then one will be able to accept the injunction to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and always be engaged