Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: So if the activities is going on with the laws of nature, then how do you become Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Do you (indistinct) yourself completely?
Prabhupāda: That Kṛṣṇa says, that sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ (BG 18.66). "You nonsense. You give up all this nonsense business. Come to Me." So we have . . . you have to develop such knowledge. "Oh, Kṛṣṇa says like this, let me do this."
(break) ". . . faith that whatever engagement you have manufactured, it is simply troublesome, miserable for your life. Don't try to manufacture any more. Please come to Me." "Oh, how shall I live?" Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ (BG 18.66): "Don't bother. I shall give you protection."
Unfortunately, we do not follow. We have no business to maintain this body or that body, but simply to surrender to God. Then everything will be done.
(break) . . . maintain your body. Everyone is trying to become President Johnson or something like that. Does it mean that he will become? The arrangement is pre-arrangement. You may work day and night, hard labor, but you'll get whatever is destined to you. That's all. You cannot get more.
That is being taught by Prahlāda Mahārāja. Just like a dog, he has got a particular type of body. He is confined in that bodily activities. If a dog likes that, "I shall be President Johnson," is it possible? However . . . how much he may try, that body will not allow him. Similarly, we have got a particular type of body to enjoy a particular type of sense gratification. If we try to go beyond that, it is not possible.
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says: "Don't try foolishly in that way. If you have got any energy, try to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That will make you happy." Don't misuse your energy in that way that, "I shall become this, I shall become that." That you cannot become.
(break) . . . the example, yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ (SB 7.6.3). You are trying to be happy in a different way. That is not the way of happiness. But you are thinking that "I shall be happy in this way."
But that also you cannot do. Your happiness, whatever is destined to you, that will come automatically. How? He gives the example, yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ. Just like a misery of your life, you do not try for it, but it comes upon you automatically. Similarly, the happiness of your life will also come upon you automatically. So do not try to waste your time for so-called happiness or to drive away so-called distress. Just push yourself under the protection of Kṛṣṇa. He will manage everything and you'll be happy.