Prahlāda Mahārāja said that "Don't waste your time for improving your bodily comforts. That is not good. It is simply waste of time." Tat prāyaso na kartavyo yata āyur vyayaḥ param. This life, human form of life, param, the supreme life. . . In the material existence the human form of life is supreme. Even the demigods, they desire that "If I can again go to Bhārata-varṣa and get a human life." This is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So you have come to Bhārata-varṣa, or you are born in Bhārata-varṣa, human life. Take full opportunity of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Don't waste a single moment. This is the instruction. And even if you develop your economic condition, then what is the gain? Real gain is to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Therefore it is said, na tathā vindate kṣemaṁ mukunda-caraṇāmbujam (SB 7.6.4). You simply dedicate your life to serve Mukunda. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Mukunda. Muk means liberation. Mukti. Muk means mukti. So ānanda, the mukti-ānanda, that is real ānanda, liberation. So therefore our business is how to surrender fully unto the lotus feet of Mukunda, mukunda-caraṇāmbujam, and fully engage in His service. That is the only business of human life. Don't try to make economic development, dharmārtha-kāma-mokṣa (SB 4.8.41). Don't try to become a religious person also.
Religious person means strictly following the rules and regulation of varṇāśrama-dharma. That is called religious.
- varṇāśramācāravatā
- puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān
- visnur ārādhyate puṁsāṁ
- nānyat tat toṣa-kāraṇam
- (CC Madhya 8.58)
Varnāśrama-dharma is called dharma. Dharma. . . There is brāhmaṇa. He has got his duties, prescribed duties. Kṣatriya, he has got his prescribed duties. This is all explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. And vaiśya, he has got his prescribed duties. So even if you are executing your occupational duties very perfectly, but if you do not enhance your Kṛṣṇa consciousness it is useless. Dharma-artha-kāma-mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, CC Ādi 1.90). It is useless. You can say, "I am executing my brāhmaṇa-dharma very nicely."