Which service is ideal – service according to our nature or service that is the need of the hour?

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So which service is ideal? Service that is according to our nature or service that is in need of our answer? Both are important and there can be situations urgent or emergency situations where if something is necessary we should do that so the need of the hour is definitely important and that should be done. At the same time while doing whatever we are told to do we should be observing observing ourselves, observing the scope of what other services are there observing what all is there to learn and based on that we choose we keep observing this is something which I am good at, this is what I can do and that way we keep learning and as opportunity presents itself in future we try to gravitate towards that service if somehow there is a discovery that this is what I want to do and we are also able to do it well then we can try to move towards that service in a conscious way also but we should not do this being driven by the mind the mind often thinks that whatever service I am going to do I am doing right now that is not my nature that way the mind keeps us keeps us basically floating in the air going here and there and not coming closer to Krishna through any kind of commitment so do what is the need of the hour but along with that keep observing and for longevity definitely we need to do service according to our nature because that is the tradition of Varanasi that is how things are can be done stably so if something is according to our nature we will ourselves be inspired more we will ourselves be motivated more and we will be competent than that we will get some results that will also satisfy us so in terms of longevity its best to engage according to nature but in terms of immediate need sometimes we may have to do something which is the need of the hour and we should do that but even while doing that we should not think surrender only means doing that surrender also means being able to serve lifelong and sometimes we may practice a very high level of surrender for some time but if we equate bhakti with only that and then we feel I cannot do this then we may just give up bhakti entirely so is it necessarily beneficial is it that we make more advancement by going against our nature we shouldn’t bother too much about those things because bhakti is not just a matter of short term practice it is a lifelong multi lifelong hall so its better that we over time situate ourselves in a way that we can feel inspired to practice bhakti lifelong and how to go about it will depend on person to person situation to situation ok