Is wanting to rise in the corporate world due to the mode of passion?
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thank you in being ambitious won’t we go into the mode of passion and want to rise more and more in the corporate hierarchy like a sportsman wants to excel see spiritual life is not necessarily abandoning material goals it is more about infusing the spiritual purpose to our life so sometimes by being ambitious we may go into the mode of passion but otherwise also if we have the mode of passion already not being ambitious will make us feel choked and Prabhu I am not going to take anything what are you doing you are putting more I won’t take anything not hungry so so we already have the mode of passion within us and if we don’t channel it it will come out in ugly ways see if I say that I will not achieve things because I am so spiritual but then the drive to achieve is there and then if somebody else achieves I will become envious of them because that same ambition within me is coming out in a distorted way so rather than worrying about whether I am going to the mode of passion or not what we should focus on is whether I am connecting with Krishna adequately or not so not just this alone you need to have a direct connection with Krishna so you may decide this is the level of spirituality I am going to practice this I will come to the temple or attend this program this much chanting, this much study of scripture once I decide that much then after I have decided that whatever remaining time I have I will become whole hearted I will stay whole hearted in my material life so we should do our work but we shouldn’t be attached to the results that means that if some promotion comes, if some raise comes that’s good and if it doesn’t come still I have done that in the mode of service to Krishna the mode of passion will come when we just for pursuing material things give up Krishna bhakti but if you are firm in our connection with Krishna and that connection with Krishna will give us the intelligence of how to do our material life in a way that is harmonious with our spiritual purpose Hare Krishna