Karma And Bhakti Appear To Be The Same - Prabhupada 0330

710824 - Lecture SB 01.02.03 - London

People may see that, "These Kṛṣṇa conscious people, they are also working, they are also eating, they are also sleeping, they are earning money. We are earning money in this way, they are earning in another way." So they may see the similarity of action. Karma and bhakti to the fools appear to be the same. No. It is not the same.

Here is realization that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, whereas in the karma platform, the realization is that, "Everything belongs to me. It is my house, my money, my children, my country, my society, my property." "My" and "I." "I am the monarch of all I survey, and I am the proprietor of everything." So this misconception is not there in the bhakti. In the bhakti school, everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. We don't take anything as our own. That is called Vaiṣṇava philosophy.