Should we work without worrying about result or work for Krishna?

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yes answer the two are not necessarily contradictory because Krishna is not necessarily concerned with the result Krishna is concerned with the endeavor and the classic example of this is in the Ramayana when the bridge is being built so there is a Hanuman and other Mangas are taking giant boulders and there is a squirrel who is just taking a small particle of that and then Lord Rama tells Hanuman that I value the squirrel’s contribution as much as I value yours because he also has an intention to serve and I see that so Krishna is Bhavagrahi so in that sense the focus on the work itself does not necessarily have to be lost when we are working for Krishna because it’s not like working for Krishna means we shift the focus from the work to the result but rather what we change is not the specific result that we aim for in terms of the material output but the purpose towards which our whole life is dedicated so when we say work for Krishna it means that our heart is leaning towards Krishna and we try to devote ourselves to Krishna by making him the foremost goal of our life so should a devotee say when we are working in an office should we just focus on trying to do the work as well as we can or should we constantly be I am doing this for Krishna I am doing this for Krishna no focus should be just on doing the work but in general before starting the work at the end of the work the devotee tries to remember I am doing this for Krishna and then as we expose ourselves more and more to Krishna vibrations then Krishna will enter more and more into our consciousness and gradually the work that we do specific work that we are doing will go into the background although it will be attentive it will go into the background and the purpose for which we are doing the work will come in the foreground just like an example suppose a person learns to become a pilot the first time when a person flies at that time he was very excited oh I am in the sky I have to take care of this and he is enamored the occasion enamors the person a lot but say a person has flown for hundred times, thousand times and after that the person is focused where do I have to go just as for the pilot who is habituated to flying the focus shifts from the external to the internal similarly for us as devotees our focus will shift from external to internal where we will not worry too much about our external situations and we focus on the purpose of our work just as the pilot who is focusing now I have to go from say Melbourne to Sydney it is not that seasoned pilot is negligent of the controls, he is absorbed but also the purpose is more in the foreground so like that working with absorption in the world and working for Krishna are not contradictory they are progressive stages which work as we as our consciousness turns inwards and as we become more connected with Krishna then the two gel together because then we are not enamored by the results but we are we are absorbed in the person for whom we are working and because we are working for Krishna so we want to offer the best to him a devotee who is flying a plane thinks I want to do whatever I can be the best for Krishna so then if I have to do the best naturally I have to absorb myself in that way we will be able to do the best