Question: We have been fortunate to receive your spiritual instructions. Can you also give us some instructions how to conduct our material life, especially our official life, which we do like eight hours daily? What would be our mood in doing that? I basically work for an IT company as a consultant. How can I utilize this duty of mine also by aligning to instructions, of what Krishna mentioned that whatever duty you do, do it for Him?

Jayapataka Swami: Since devotees by working they are getting some income to maintain their family and maintain their devotional service, offering food to the deities, and then with the income, they may help the CDM, the local temple, in this way they can see the activity as connected to Krishna. Since by all this work, one is able to do various services to Krishna. You have to do something to maintain your family, so it is quite necessary to do some work. But we can see how the work is connected to the different aspects of devotional service. Like Murari Gupta was a devotee of Lord Caitanya. And he was by profession a doctor. So he had to see patients and in those days give them ayurvedic medicines. But for the income, he was maintaining his Sita, Rama Laksmana, Hanuman deities. So the devotees of Lord Caitanya, they also did different things to maintain their families. But that wasn’t an obstacle in their spiritual life. So, I think all the people here have either a job or business or something. And with the income they are helping the CDM. So they can see their work as part of their service to Krishna. Similarly, the students, they can see their studies as part of devotional service. Everything we should connect to Krishna.
06-June-2020 SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA