View source for So-called humanitarian service, social service, without any touch with Krsna . . . just like watering on the tree without touching the root - it is useless labor

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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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So-called humanitarian service, social service, without any touch with Kṛṣṇa . . . just like watering on the tree without touching the root—it is useless labor. Similarly, you do whatever service you can do to the society, to the community, to the nation, but do it in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then you are perfect. Otherwise it will remain imperfect. The persons who are . . . whom you are giving service, they'll never be happy, neither you'll be happy.
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[[Vanisource:730104 - Lecture NOD - Bombay|730104 - Lecture NOD - Bombay]]
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So if you are eating, eating simply sin, how we can be happy? We have to suffer. Bhuñjate te aghaṁ pāpām ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt. So who is cooking for Kṛṣṇa? Nobody's cooking. Except a Kṛṣṇa's devotee, nobody's cooking. He's pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt. He's thinking, "Now this sandeṣa, rasagullā, purī and meat and chicken, I shall eat very voraciously." So you are . . . he's eating sinful, sins, all sins. Aghaṁ pāpā. And he has to suffer. He has to suffer. Therefore people are suffering. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, everyone must suffer. That is the laws of nature. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). You cannot avoid it. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). Only you can be happy when you are a surrendered soul to Kṛṣṇa. That is the only way. Hariṁ vinā na mṛtiṁ taranti.

So we have got this loving propensity, but we do not know how to love and where our loving propensity should be reposed. That we do not know. That is Kṛṣṇa. People . . . the same example. Just like if you water in the root of tree, then the water is distributed all over the branches, leaves and flowers and everywhere. If you put foodstuff in the stomach, the energy's distributed all over the body. Everyone can understand this. There are . . . Kṛṣṇa is the root. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|BG 10.8]]). Janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). He's the root. But we are neglecting the root. We are trying to pour water in the leaves. The leaf will dry, and his labor will be frustrated. That is happening.

So-called humanitarian service, social service, without any touch with Kṛṣṇa . . . just like watering on the tree without touching the root—it is useless labor. Similarly, you do whatever service you can do to the society, to the community, to the nation, but do it in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then you are perfect. Otherwise it will remain imperfect. The persons who are . . . whom you are giving service, they'll never be happy, neither you'll be happy.

So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, that they're simply wasting their time. Śrama eva hi kevalam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]]). Simply wasting their time in so-called humanitarian service. They must take. Nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandhe. Everything should be in relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
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