Eternal spiritual duty requires burning eagerness for Krishna, not temporary material occupations.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: [chants verse] [break] acirād eva sarvārthaḥ sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya yeṣāṁ nirbandhinī matiḥ [Cc Madhya 20.106] [00:24] Translation: "Those who are anxious to awaken their spiritual consciousness, who have unflinching intelligence and who are not deviated, certainly attain the desired goal." Prabhupāda: acirād eva sarvārthaḥ sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya yeṣāṁ nirbandhinī matiḥ [Cc Madhya 20.106] So here the most important word is sad-dharma. Dharma... In the English dictionary dharma is described as a kind of faith, but here it is said, sad-dharma. Sad-dharma.
Sat means which exists, which never diminishes. In the Vedic knowledge we get information, asato mā sad gama: "Don't remain in the nonexistentional platform." Sad-gama: "Go to the platform of eternal life." That we can understand, what is sat and what is asat. Sat, cit, ānanda. Sac-cid-ānanda.
We describe Kṛṣṇa, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs 5.1]. So that is sat. Sat means eternal. And so according to reference with sat and asat, there are two kinds of dharma. I...
Several places in my books I have described, dharma means occupational duty, occupational duty. So if we are on the platform of asad-dharma, just like on the conception of this body... This is asad-dharma. Everyone knows the body will not exist; therefore it is asat.
So any dharma or any occupational duty with reference to this nonpermanent body, that is asad-dharma. Asad-dharma. Whatever our occupational duties are now going on in this big city of New York... What is their occupational duty?
The duty... Everyone is going to the office early in the morning. They have got... Everyone has got duty, but that duty—asad-dharma.
Body will not exist; therefore anything done on account of the body, that is asad-dharma. That is not real dharma. Real dharma is when you come to the platform of sat. That sat we have to understand, what is sat and what is asat.