Everyone should be satisfied with the profit that he can easily make

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Prabhupada, Bombay, April 11, 1974: […] Here is the formula, that everyone should be satisfied with the profit that he can easily make. That’s all. Yadrccha-labha. Not that everyone will have the same profit.

In material world everyone is working. Somebody is getting per hour thousands of rupees, and somebody is getting not even morsel of food. But still, one has to be satisfied. “Because one is getting thousands of rupees per hour, I will have to get also.”

No. Then you will never be happy. You be happy what you are gaining. Because everyone is making profit and losing according to his past karma. Purva-janmarjitam dhanam purva-janmarjitam vidya, agre dhavati dhavati. This is the shastric injunction.

One man is trying with a little capital to do some business, and within few years he becomes very multi-millionaire. And one man is trying to elevate himself to a prosperous condition, but he cannot get even sufficient food.

Why? Purva-janmarjitam vidya purva-janma. One boy is passing examination, standing first-class. Another man, boy, is failing. Everyone is trying. Everyone should try his best, but he should be satisfied with the result which comes without any very much strain, yadrccha-labha. Yadrccha-labha-santustah.

That is lacking in the present civilization. Not only at the present moment, because Krsna was speaking five thousand years ago. And before that, He spoke Bhagavad-gita millions and trillions of years ago to the sun-god. This is the way of material civilization or material conditioned life, competition.

The real competition began by being jealous to Krsna. Real competition began. Krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare. Krsna is the Supreme enjoyer. Krsna says, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29]. So our fall down this I have explained the other day is there when we wanted to compete with Krsna or become Krsna.

The jealous, iccha…. Iccha-dvesa-samutthena sarge yanti parantapa. Sarge. Sarge means this creation, this material creation. We have come to this material creation. We do not belong to this material creation, but we have come here. Full Lecture