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Seeing Krsna
Everywhere and Always

In our practical life, Krsna instructs us how to in-
voke Krsna consciousness. [t is not that we are to
stop executing our duty or to cease from activity.
Rather, activities have to be conducted in Krsna con-
sciousness. Everyone has a vocation in life, but with
what consciousness does he enter upon it? Everyone
is thinking, “Oh, I must have a vocation in order to
maintain my family.” Society, the government or the
family have to be satisfied, and no one is free from
such consciousness. One has to be in proper con-
sciousness to execute any activity nicely. He whose
consciousness is agitated, who is like a madman, can-
not execute any duty. We should execute our duty
properly, but we should do it thinking to satisfy
Krsna. It is not that we have to change our process of
work, but we do have to understand for whom we
are working. Whatever activity we have to do we
must execute, but we should not be carried away by
kama, desire. The Sanskrit word kama is used to in-
dicate lust, desire or sense satisfaction. Sri Krsna
instructs that we should not work for the satisfaction
of kama or our own lust. The whole teaching of
Bhagavada-gita is based on this principle.

Arjuna wanted to satisfy his senses by refraining
from fighting with his relatives, but Krsna spoke to
him to convince him to execute his duty for the sat-
isfaction of the Supreme. Materially it may seem very
