Transform your mentality from working for yourself to working for Krishna's pleasure.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani]. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Gaura-Premanandi.
Hari Haribol. Thank you very much. [32:04] yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ bhuñjate te tv aghaṃ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt [Bg 3.13] [The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.] This verse we are discussing last meeting, that we should eat after offering sacrifice. Lord Kṛṣṇa says that things which are eatable, we receive by the grace of the Lord, we should acknowledge it.
We should not be forgetful, that our eatables which come to us, they can be manufactured by our sweet will. No. The arrangement is so nice in the administration of nature that we shall get all our necessities of life by the grace of God, and our duty is to advance ourself in the right knowledge of our spiritual existence, without unnecessarily engaging ourself for sense gratification. That is the difference between human civilization and animal life. Beginning of our Bhagavad-gītā lesson is based on that we are spirit consciousness.
We are not this body. And the whole function of the human society is to be enlightened in that spiritual consciousness of life instead of wasting time in sense gratification like the animals, who are concerned with eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. That is the background of our this discussion, that we are different from the ordinary animals. So the common factor of animal life and human life is these four principles of bodily demands, namely that we require to eat and we require to sleep, we require some defensive measures for protecting ourself from the enemies and we require some extent of sense gratification. That is the needs of my body.
They are not the needs of my self as I am, spirit soul. Now, if I want to get rid of this bodily encagement, or the threefold miseries of material existence, then I must put myself under treatment. Just like a diseased man goes to a physician for treatment to get out of..., get relief from the sufferings of the disease, similarly, our material existence, consisting of threefold miseries and birth, death, old age and diseases, if we are actually conscious for our happiness, we must make a permanent solution of these miseries. That is the mission of human life. So for making that mission fulfilled, we have got developed consciousness than the animals. That developed consciousness should not be misused only for the animal propensities of life.
That is the whole thing. And therefore, Lord Kṛṣṇa says that in order to reach to that stage of perfection, you should work. Your work should not be stopped. We have already discussed this point, that niyataṃ kuru karma tvaṃ karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ [Bg 3.8], [Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.] that "Your prescribed duty should be prosecuted nicely. Go on. Don't stop it, but work for the life of karma-yoga. Karma-yoga.
Ordinary work is called karma. Ordinary work is karma. And when it is added with yoga, that means spiritualized work. Yoga.