Yoga as Work in Devotion 13

There are some yogis who perform yoga for a
profit, but that is not real yoga. Everything must be
engaged in the service of the Lord. Whatever we do
as an ordinary worker, or as a sanny<dsi, or as a yogi,
or as a philosopher must be done in Krsna conscious-
ness. When we are absorbed in the thought of serving
Krsna and when we act in that consciousness, we can
become real sannyasis and real yogis.

For those who are taking the first step up the
staircase of the yoga system, there is work. One
should not think that simply because he is beginning
yoga that he should stop working. In Bhagavad-gita
Krsna asks Arjuna to become a yogi, but He never
tells him to cease from fighting. Quite the contrary.
Of course one may ask how a person may be a yogi
and at the same time a warrior. Our conception of
yoga practice is that of sitting very straight with legs
crossed and eyes half-closed staring at the tip of our
nose and concentrating in this way in a lonely place.
So how is it that Krsna is asking Arjuna to become a
yogi and at the same time participate in a ghastly
civil war? That is the mystery of Bhagavad-gita: one
can remain a fighting man and at the same time be
the highest yogi, the highest sannyasi. How is this
possible? In Krsna consciousness. One simply has to
fight for Krsna, work for Krsna, eat for Krsna, sleep
for Krsna and dedicate all activities to Krsna. In this
way one becomes the highest yogi and the highest
sannyast. That is the secret.

In the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gitd, Sri Krsna
instructs Arjuna how to perform meditational yoga,
but Arjuna rejects this as too difficult. How then is
