When we become responsible in our material life our employers may exploit us – how to avoid?

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if we say commitment in we should be committed in our material life also because that culture of commitment will help us in our spiritual life also but commitment to material life means that sometimes our office people may exploit us more and more so how do we avoid that yes the nature of the conditioned mind is that when one thing is emphasized the conditioned mind makes that one thing which is important as all important if somebody says you should chant attentively it’s important we should chant attentively but it is not that when you are chanting attentively we neglect everything else if you have other duties in life somebody says you should study shastra study shastra but there are other things to do also in life so the nature of the conditioned mind is you just make one thing be absolute the rest will balance so when we are talking about commitment there are you could say there are three levels one is that one just doesn’t work in one’s profession and that creates a lot of problems one may lose one’s job or one may get a bad reputation and then one doesn’t learn and eventually if later on one is retrenched one doesn’t know what kind of job to take so it is like being below par that can create a lot of problems the other is one does what is expected and beyond that is one excels so now what is required where even if one is excelling one has to be intelligent even if you see materialistic people also they may they want to grow in their career but even they also they all want time for their personal life they want time for their enjoyment so it is not that commitment in our material life means that that should become a consuming passion for us it has to be balanced so we use our intelligence in such a way that our point is as I said that we should not just be running around whichever way the mind is running around so it is not that in the name of commitment to material life commitment to our profession we let the profession completely consume us and not let us do anything else that means that we are losing the sense of perspective sometimes in our material life the project may have a deadline and that time we just have to work over that that’s fine we all go through phases but overall we have to come back to a sense of balance so that sense of balance requires sattva guna in passion we just get consumed by whatever we are doing without a sense of proportion in tamo guna we are just so burdened by all that we have to do that we don’t do anything I have to do this I have to do that I have so many things to do what are you doing I have so many things to do we don’t do anything at all so in tamo guna we are just burdened and we don’t do anything in bhaja guna we just get caught in doing one thing and we lose the sense of proportion we don’t do things proper in a sense of balance in sattva guna we get that balance so even while doing our work if we take periodic breaks say we do our work every weekend or every month where is my career going right now I am going in this direction this is just going too far in this situation I was given this work but this was somebody else’s work I should have said no over there could have been diplomatic but I should have said no so if we if we take periodic breaks if we are practicing bhakti bhakti sadhana is ultimately meant to make us transcendental but bhakti sadhana also brings us to the mode of goodness and with that mode of goodness if we evaluate then we can understand this is not going right this is what I need to make right and then we can bring a sense of balance so we may go off track sometimes but we can bring ourselves back on track by observing ourselves in the mode of goodness does that answer your question? thank you