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“Unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of …

According to his association with the material modes of nature – goodness, passion, and ignorance – a living entity gets …

One who is in the mode of ignorance cannot know what his past life was or what his next life …

The Yamadūtas continued, “The supreme cause of all causes, Nārāyaṇa, is situated in His abode in the spiritual world, but …

”The sun, fire, sky, air, demigods, moon, evening, day, night, directions, water, land, and the Supersoul Himself all witness the …

“O inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all fruitive workers, whether acting piously …

The Cause Behind All Activities

The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (6.8) informs us,

Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is almighty, omnipotent. He has multifarious energies, and therefore He is able to remain …

Atheistic men, however, being covered by the three modes of material nature, cannot see that Nārāyaṇa is the supreme cause …

“Deluded by the three modes, the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible.”

Compelled to Work

There are three energies of the Supreme Lord: the internal energy (parā-śakti), the marginal energy, and the external energy. The …

The Yamadūtas say that everyone with a material body must work. An ant and an elephant both have to work. …

On the Basis of a Man’s Nature

The real aim of life is to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, and varṇāśrama-dharma is the institution of that ideal in human society. …

In this material world we associate with a particular combination of the modes of nature, and accordingly we mold our …

Prescribed Duty vs. Unlawful Action

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

“Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, …