If spiritual advancement removes our worldly cravings, does that mean spiritualists can’t progress materially?
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I said the highest spiritual achievement is when we don’t crave for anything more does that mean that we cannot progress materially while we are progressing spiritually no it means that we need to learn how to harmonize the material with the spiritual it doesn’t mean bhakti one of the most common words in today’s fragmented world world view is or this or this but the process of bhakti is not the process of or it is the process of and that means it is not that material or spiritual it is spiritual and material harmonizing the spiritual so we understand that we at our core are spiritual beings and we have material bodies but both the body and the soul are energies of Krishna and bhakti means not just to realize that I am the soul bhakti means to realize that I am a soul who is a part of Krishna and I am meant to love and serve Krishna and when I love and serve Krishna I use whatever material resources I had in his service so if I have certain natural talents I should use those talents if I have intelligence then I use my intelligence to do well in my studies I progress in my career it is not that we have to give up these things but we have to connect them with Krishna so we need certain amount of time for our sadhana for our practice of spiritual life so that our heart is connected with Krishna and once our heart is connected with Krishna then whatever time we have in our material life we do work diligently and what we have to give up is not material progress what we have to give up is the notion that material progress alone will make me happy getting a more paid job, getting more marks in exam getting into a big college, getting into a big company these things alone will not make us happy these things won’t have to be given up but if they are done in a mood of service to Krishna like Krishna you have given me some abilities and I will use them in your sense what we have is God’s gift to us what we become is our gift to God