The idea that I shall have to labour to live is very dishonourable. «If I have to live, I must labour», that is very dishonourable. So the ancient scholars searched for a position where we can live without labour, where without pain we can live easily. They started a campaign to discover or invent such a position. Sometimes naiskarmya (a life without karma) received much appreciation within the society. They want to be without labour troubles. In this way the capitalists use computers and so many machines in place of so much man-labour. The man-labour has been so impertinent that the capitalists want to eliminate it.

The ancient scholars were sometimes very busy to discover a social position for all souls whereby they can live without labour, without karma: naiskarmya. They came to consider that self-satisfaction, atmaramata, could be achieved by complete withdrawal. To back up this conception they considered that Buddha and Sankar came to give relief by pointing out that there is a stage of samadhi such as we feel in a sound sleep. They described that if we can reach that plane of no labour, we will still be able to live happily, and we will find no trouble there.

Sukadev Goswami agreed, «Yes, naiskarmya is also found here.» But in Srimad Bhagavatam he gave a new form of naiskarmya: «You say that work is painful, work is dissipating. You say that labour is wasting energy. But now I am going to give you an ideal of life where there is no dissipation. You will labour, but without dissipation of energy.»

Service to the Lord is not labour. It is a giver, a sustainer. It does not deplete vitality; it sustains more and more. It is life-giving. Pure service is life-giving, not life-taking; not vitality-killing, but vitality-supplying. It is opposite in the eternal plane, especially in the Goloka area where everything is a labour of love. Without labour the residents of Goloka will think themselves to be fasting, and when engaged in labour they will think themselves to be well fed. Service is nourishing. Service is not depleting; it is not killing. Therefore our attempt should not be so much for knowledge, for trying to know everything, but it should be directed towards how we can utilise ourselves in the highest function: service.

Service, service, service. Don’t be afraid that service is depleting energy. Service is life-giving. It is feeding you properly. Service!

We are to understand that slavery to Krishna is a most dignified position. And everything against that ideal is meanness. The only standard of life for a gentleman is to understand and accept the position of subordination to the Absolute Truth. To admit what is proper and real, and on that basis make one’s life advanced, is not meanness. To understand one’s proper position and to understand one’s proper duty and discharge it — that is a gentleman’s life; to accept what is truth. What is considered to be meanness will be removed very soon. And what is really for our welfare and beneficial to us will increase.

You are at present in an adulterated conception of your own life. The mind, intelligence, and exploiting energies of different kinds are all adulteration. So from your existence will be eliminated all kinds of adulteration. It will be purified, and your real self within will come out in its pristine glory — you will find you have a happy devotional connection with the Supersoul, the Super-knowledge. You will come across knowledge proper — a clear, personal type of knowledge — with its paraphernalia and systematic existence.

Whatever you are attracted to at present in this mundane plane will be transferred. Affection proper will be discovered. At present your affection, attraction, and love are misdirected, but they will find their proper place and position. The special characteristic is that you will have a real place and position where these faculties of affection and attraction will find a special support, a proper place to which they will be directed. This is devotion.


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