Should we pray for Krishna’s help for dealing with some problem in our profession even when such problem is material?

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thank you when we face some challenging during our work may be some equation, some code some problem and we are stymied by it at that time we pray to Krishna Krishna please help me so at one level we feel that this will take us closer to Krishna and we are at least thinking of Krishna and we feel satisfied that we have thought of Krishna and pray to Krishna and that satisfaction of connection with Krishna remains even if that particular situation is not solved but on the other hand we hear that we should not ask Krishna for anything material and also that we should we should strive to be pure so what exactly should we do? should we pray like this or not? so now at our level we have to follow the two points of firstly Anukundi Sankalp set the favourable and put aside the unfavourable so one of the most defining principles which are favourable for us is that we have to think of Krishna so somehow or other we have to think of Krishna and whatever works out for us that is good so if we face some problems in our life it is not that it is not that we are to create a rigid division between the material and the spiritual and say that in my material life I have nothing to do with Krishna and pure devotion means that I connect with Krishna only at the spiritual level and nothing at all at the material level that is actually against the inclusions of God so what that means is that bhakti enables us to spiritualise the material as I told you before we take food, we offer we offer prayers when we do various activities in the material life it is spiritualised in our lives so bhakti is inclusive in our profession so praying to Krishna for help it is not at all wrong we certainly want to remember Krishna and if the remembrance is in the form of a call for help we make an effort and whatever way we remember Krishna that is good now the problem comes when the material itself is considered to be spiritual that means because I am thinking of Krishna when I am working because I am thinking of Krishna when I am at home there is no need for me to take special time to chant there is no need for me to take special time to go to temple because always Krishna I am thinking of him all the time so the material spiritual separation should be done to make sure that we invest deep time in the spiritual because if we artificially imagine that everything that we do is spiritual then the direct connection with Krishna will not be there however once we have invested a good amount of time for direct spiritual connection with Krishna which is going to raise our consciousness and material spiritual level gradually then whatever we have to do as a part of our obligation as a part of our career or whatever situation in life then that also should provide the spiritualness and one way of spiritual connection is by praying to Krishna for guidance for help so we shouldn’t reject that as material but we shouldn’t restrict so one extreme is to imagine that the material itself is spiritual because I have a devotional intention no, even if there is a devotional intention there has to be exclusive focused practice of bhakti also and the other extreme is to reject the material entirely and see no connection with Krishna it is also not required so the main problem is not that we pray to Krishna for material things the main problem is we pray to Krishna only for material things so when we are in the material world certainly material things are going to take our time and thought and we if we decide that I will not even think I will not even connect this with Krishna because then my devotion will get contaminated then we have actually a contaminated understanding of devotion devotion is inclusive it includes the material life also and that inclusion comes firstly by our practices of exclusive bhakti and secondly by our our our resourcefully striving to connect the material things with Krishna are you sure? we can pray when it is required we can thank Krishna and things work out nicely so but we should not restrict our bhakti only to that that is the main concept one last question