Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Here is a few short paragraphs in which Prabhupada  quickly explains

why the most common devotee, is light years ahead of even the greatest of  materialists.

Why is that? Because the materialist is only furthering his  implication

in Karma, while the devotee is getting free of this nasty thing called  karma.(repeated birth and death)

Damaghosa das

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761228SB.VRN                    Lectures

  Sometimes bhakti is observed as similar to the activities of  the karmis, but there is difference. One is bhakti,  one is going back to home, back to Godhead; and the other is going forward to  the hellish condition of life by the same activities. This is the  technique. How it is possible? It is possible. By practical example,  it is said in the sastras… Just like if you take more quantity of  milk preparation, you get diarrhea. But the same milk preparation,  yogurt, is there. It will stop diarrhea. Both of them are milk  preparation. One has created the disease diarrhea, and another is  stopping diarrhea. So why? Cikirsitam.

One is by medical process and the other is without any medical  process. The medical process is to  satisfy Krsna. Here the building is being constructed to satisfy  Krsna. To satisfy Krsna. And in other places the building is constructed  to satisfy senses. This is the difference, material and  spiritual.    Material means to satisfy one’s  senses. Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma yad indriya-pritaya aprnoti.  Karma means they are working very hard like dogs and hogs, but the purpose  is indriya-priti. Nunam pramattah: they are mad. They  should not… And why mad? Because the karma means you are creating  another body. And as soon as there is another body, dehantara-praptir, so  long you have got this material

body, you’ll suffer. That is the law of nature. Karmanu bandhah.  Yavan priti mayi deve… tavat karmanu bandhanah. The karmanu-bandha  will continue. Therefore in the sastra it is recommended, yajnarthe  karma anyatra karma-bandhanah. Don’t act anything except for  the satisfaction of Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement. If you  do anything for your sense gratification, that means you are being  bound up by the laws of karma. Laws of karma, it is very strict according  to the modes of activities. Purusah prakrti-stho hi bhunkte  karma-jan gunan.    So we should be very much careful not to be  afflicted by the karma. Karmanu bandha. This is very delicate task….

Bg 3.9  T                       Karma-yoga

Work done as a sacrifice for Visnu has to be performed, otherwise work  binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your  prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always  remain unattached and free from bondage.