Is working hard and getting promoted in our job good?
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take care in material life a job working dedicatedly and receiving promotion, is it good? yeah of course if we see Arjuna he was in his job the best archer and how did he become the best archer? he did not become the best archer simply by by relaxing he worked hard, he practiced tirelessly he would practice archery so much so it is bhakti is not about apathy or lethargy in our material life it is about making Krishna the center of our life Krishna the purpose of our life so we do need some quality time for directly connecting with Krishna through our daily spiritual practices through our periodic spiritual programs but along with that we permeate our entire life with Krishna so we do our job and we do it because we want to do that as a service that is also an offering to Krishna by your work, worship him Krishna says some people translate this as work is worship now Krishna is not saying karma hi puja hai Krishna is saying by your work, worship him if work were worship then the donkey would be the greatest worshipper work can be done as a worship work alone is not worship now work is worship is a fine enough slogan a good saying if we want to imbue all work with dignity if we want to recognize that no people whatever work they are doing they should not be looked down upon everybody should be offered dignity based on their work so as far as offering dignity to work and to workers work is worship is a good enough principle but it is not a philosophical truth it is not that work automatically itself is worship rather work is meant to be done in a mode of worship but if it is done in that mode that means I understand that this job which I am doing ultimately I am using the talents which Krishna has given me to make a contribution and my life’s purpose is Krishna for that I need financial stability if I have a social standing then that helps me in practicing bhakti, in sharing bhakti so if our life’s purpose is Krishna then pursuing improvement and excellence in our material life as a service to Krishna that is natural, that is good the important thing is that we don’t let material pursuits encroach so much of our time and thought that we have no time left for Krishna so as I said growth is not the problem disproportionate growth has happened in cancer that is the problem so growth in material life is fine but when our material life’s growth becomes cancerous it just takes up all our time and energy not leaving any time for anything else that is when it becomes a problem otherwise the more we grow in our material life the more we can contribute directly, indirectly to make to deepen our connection with Krishna to help others connect with Krishna so it’s always positive thank you