How can we offer all the results of our work to Krishna?
From Dheeraj
In this quote
“If, however, you are unable to work in this consciousness of Me, then try to act giving up all results of your work and try to be self-situated.”
What it means “giving up all results of your work”, how can we give up the results…By donation, or by doing service to Krishna? the more we get involved in material activities the more we get attached to the result.
Transcript
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Hare Krishna! Question from Dheeraj Agarwal. This is based on Bhagavad Gita 12.11. If however you are unable to work in this consciousness of me then try to act giving up all the results of your work and try to be self-situated.
What does it mean giving up all the results of your work? How can we give up the results? By donation or by doing service to Krishna? The more we get involved in material activities, the more we get attached to the result. Answer, giving up the results doesn’t mean necessarily giving up the material activities because we can do material activities with attachment to Krishna instead of attachment to those particular activities. When we practice devotional service, that steady practice of devotional service helps us to increase our attraction to Krishna and when our attraction to Krishna increases more and more then what we are doing specifically doesn’t matter as much as for whom we are doing it.
Vishwanath Chetha could use the example that just was when a family man, a householder is working they were doing different kinds of works in the profession but that person is thinking of my child is there, my wife is there and I am doing all this for them. So just as Vishwanath Chetha says that just as a householder works like that thinking of his family similarly a devotee works thinking about Krishna. So giving up the fruits of the work has various aspects to it.
First of course is yes, we should give some percentage of donation because that is the fruit that we are seeking from the work and that fruit we have to give some percentage that will vary depending on time, place, circumstance. Along with that in the mind also we understand Krishna we try to cultivate the consciousness not just in a sentimental mood sort of thing but with a deep realization and understanding that Krishna I am your servant, my home is actually your abode all my family members are your children and whatever I am doing is for you. So in our mind we cultivate this mood that Krishna I am doing all this for you.
And this will not be just a mental conception when actually our mind is devoted to Krishna. When our life is devoted to Krishna. When we are living a life for the service of Krishna with the intention of increasing our devotion and love for Krishna and we give adequate time for doing our sadhana in terms of chanting, study of scriptures, associating with devotees and all these reorient our life so that we are focused on loving and serving Krishna and our life becomes dedicated devoted to Krishna.
Then whatever activities we do they also become offered to Krishna. So there are various levels at which we can offer we offer the results of our activities. One is we try to offer our heart and our life to Krishna itself by practicing direct devotional activities.
Then we cultivate within the mind the understanding that actually whatever I am doing it is for Krishna. Third is that we in the second itself we also try to just as because we are trying to develop attachment to Krishna so everything that we are doing is for Krishna. Family versus example I gave.
And lastly we do certain activities for Krishna. We offer the fruits of our activities to Krishna by giving some donations and we directly work for Krishna also where we are doing services in which we are not using the results for ourselves but the results are going directly to Krishna. So the essential point of seeking the results offering the results to Krishna is by that we will get the ultimate result of love for Krishna and will return back to Krishna.
Thank you.