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Srila Prabhupada, Vrindavana, November 3, 1976: […] Therefore why these people are so busy? Karma-mudhan, day and night. Ataj-jnan. They do not know that such persons cannot improve their economic position simply by working hard. That is not possible. Then everyone would have been rich man.
In big, big cities like Calcutta, Bombay, London, New York, everyone is working very hard. Not that in big cities one can get their food easily. No. Everyone has to work. And everyone is working hard. Do you think that everyone is on the same level of position? No. That is not possible.
Destiny. Destiny. One man is working hard day and night, twenty-four hours; simply he is getting two chapatis, that’s all. We have seen in Bombay. They are living in such rotten condition that even in the daytime they’ll have to a kerosene lamp.
In such a place they are living, and so dirty condition. Does it mean that everyone in Bombay is living very luxuriantly? No. Similarly, every city. It is not possible. You cannot improve your economic position simply by working hard. That is not possible. You work hard or not work, whatever is destined to you, you’ll get it.
Therefore our energy should be utilized that mal-loka-kamo mad-anugraharthah. The energy should be utilized how to please Krishna. That should be done. Energy should be utilized for that purpose, not waste energy simply for a false hope that, “I shall become happy. I shall do this. I shall do that. I shall make money like this. I…”
The story of the potter. The potter is planning. He has got few pots and he is planning, “Now I have got these four pots and I will sell. I will make some profit. Then there will be ten pots. Then I’ll sell ten pots, I’ll make some profit. I’ll get twenty pots and then thirty pots, forty pots. In this way I shall become millionaire.
And at that time I shall marry, and I shall control my wife in this way and that way. And if she is disobedient, then I shall kick her like this.” So when he kicked, he kicked the pots and all the pots broke. So then his dream is gone. You see? Similarly, we are simply dreaming. With few pots we are simply dreaming that, “These pots will be increased into so many pots, so many pots, so many pots,” then finished. Don’t make imagination, make plan. Full Lecture
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