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Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam. Everyone is engaged in some sort of occupation, a particular type of occupation. Nobody's free from occupation. Everyone. But what is the perfection of that occupation? Now, saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam. If by that activity the Lord is satisfied, that is perfection.
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[[Vanisource:660408 - Lecture BG 02.55-56 - New York|660408 - Lecture BG 02.55-56 - New York]]
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So we shall not suffer a pinch if we dovetail our desires with the Supreme Lord. Simply we have to learn the art how to dovetail. That's all. And some of the instances I have already cited to you . . . just for the matter of eating. Similarly . . . now, it is not only eating. The fighting also. Fighting also.

(break) . . . the fight. He was a fighting man. But after . . . after getting instruction of Bhagavad-gītā, he changed his attitude, oh, that he shall not, he should, he would not fight. He said: "Yes, I shall fight."

Now this is dovetailing. He, the fighting man, remained. The fighting man did not change into artist or a musician. No. You need not change. You are fighting man, you remain a fighting man. If you are musician, you remain a musician. If you are a medical man, remain a medical man. Whatever you are, you remain—but dovetail it. Dovetail it.

So the whole perfection, whole perfection is that we are all active in some department. That is a fact. Now, if our activities become dovetailed with the supreme desire and He is satisfied, then saṁsiddhi, that is our perfection. Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.13|SB 1.2.13]]).

A very nice . . . svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam. Everyone is engaged in some sort of occupation, a particular type of occupation. Nobody's free from occupation. Everyone. But what is the perfection of that occupation? Now, saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam. If by that activity the Lord is satisfied, that is perfection. If by my eating the Lord is satisfied, then that is my perfection. If my, by my fighting the Lord is satisfied, then that is my perfection.

So every sphere of life, we have to know whether Lord is satisfied. That's all. That technique we have to learn. Otherwise, it is as easy as anything. We have to stop creating our own thoughts and own plans. We have to take the plans, perfect plan, from the Supreme Lord, and then execute it. Then that becomes the perfection of our life.
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