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Niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ (BG 3.8). Arjuna was Kṛṣṇa's friend, but He never said that, "You stop your working." Rather, He engaged him in his real work. He was a fighter. He was a soldier. He was decline to do the duty of a soldier. But Kṛṣṇa induced him, "No. You must become a soldier.".
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[[Vanisource:661209 - Lecture BG 09.22-23 - New York|661209 - Lecture BG 09.22-23 - New York]]
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So if you take this advantage of Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, in whatever position you may be, you will never be unhappy. You will always be prosperous. So why don't you take this advantage? Be situated. Oh, you are medical practitioner? That's all right. You are engineer? That's all right. You are a clerk? That's all right. You are a real estate man? That's all right. Never mind whatever doing. Everyone has to do something to keep his body and soul together. That is the law of nature.

Niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.8 (1972)|BG 3.8]]). Arjuna was Kṛṣṇa's friend, but He never said that, "You stop your working." Rather, He engaged him in his real work. He was a fighter. He was a soldier. He was decline to do the duty of a soldier. But Kṛṣṇa induced him, "No. You must become a soldier." So we may do whatever, by God's grace or by nature's freaks we are situated. That doesn't matter. But if you take this formula, ananyāś cintayanto mām, always think of Kṛṣṇa, then the result will be that you will never be unhappy. Just try. Make an experiment.

We don't say that you give up your engagement and become a mendicant or sannyāsī like me and give up your wife and children. No. Kṛṣṇa does not say that. You may ask, then, "Why you have given (up) your wife and children?" I have given up my wife and children for this purpose. If I am engaged in family life, then I cannot do this missionary work. I have taken absolute shelter to this work without any disturbance.
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