Hard work for sense gratification is hog life; true liberation comes through surrender and devotion to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 13, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750913MW-VRNDAVAN [43:57 Minutes] Walk_750913MW-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: This is called hog life, how to maintain this body. Kaṣṭan kāmān. Kāmān means necessities of life. Very, with great difficulty...
Kaṣṭan kāmān. [break] Kaṣṭan kāmān. Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No.
They will start big, big mills, factories, motor tires, cars, instruments. Kaṣṭan kāmān. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is called ugra-karma, fierce... [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Fierceful activities. Vraja-vāsī: Haribol!
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kaṣṭan kāmān. Unnecessarily creating problems. [break] ...one after another, one after another.
Formerly paper was used only for Vedic knowledge. Now the paper used for so many useless newspaper, volumes and volumes and jasusi[?], unnecessarily creating agitation of the mind. And if you explain these things they will say, "This is all primitive ideas." Modern ideas means one must work very hard day and night to get a little piece of cāpāṭi. Hmm?
What is the answer? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: If we don't work hard they say, "You are a burden on society." Prabhupāda: Hmm? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: If a person doesn't work hard day and night, they say, "You are just living on society." Prabhupāda: That I am explaining. The day and night is that pig is working.