Submitted by Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna-
Below are two different  things- a lectures and a conversation-but they both are on the same topic.
Sannyasa or renunciation of actions. In order to serve Krsna, or enter fire, as Srila Prabhupada explains, we have to become like fire or like Krsna-namely pure.
Now here below in this example he explains how one works in this material world outside the walls of some Krsna temple, where he or she may have a job or some business.
It is easy to understand if one is a bramacari or sannyasi then all his business (at least in theory) is Krsna related and therefore no reaction comes from this transcendental work.
Now what happens to the rest of us who don’t live as a bramacari, brahmacarini or sannyasi? How do we live in this world and still incur no reactions to our work?
I would think this is a good question most devotees have asked themselves at least once or twice. Srila Prabhupada, as our guru gives us that answer below.

damaghosa das
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April 30 1972 Tokyo

Hare Krsna-Below we have several short bits of info from various lectures/purports by Srila Prabhupada where he so easily explains how we can act in this material world , be blissfully happy by this action AND at the same time experience NO karmic reaction to these acts.
OR, we can choose to ignore our spiritual masters teachings and again become implicated in past karma. We all know his example of pulling the plug on the fan or karma and then because of misuse of our eternal freedom to act, we again return to producing more bad karma for ourselves.
He starts out below at an initiation lecture explaining how an iron rod become fire when kept in a fire long enough. Similarly, we have to keep ourselves IN that fire of Krsna Conscious activities, all the time in order to  produce the effect of fire, or complete KC,otherwise, we must go thru the gradual process of in the fire and out of the fire before we understand being out of the fire means only perpetual suffering  thru re birth with only “one “pinch” of material desire.
As Srila Prabhupada has said many times, “this Krsna Consciousness is not for the less intelligent.”

damaghosa das

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Hare Krsna-just read the below is this morning’s class

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