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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So long we have got this material body, we have to work. We cannot stop working. That is not possible. But we have to adopt the tactics of yoga so that even by doing ordinary work in which by destiny or by circumstances I am put into, there is no harm.

You'll find in Bhagavad-gītā that even if you find in your own occupation there is . . . suppose I am occupied in some business in which I have to speak lie. Without speaking lie, my business cannot go on. Now, suppose if that is the position. Now, speaking lie is not very good thing, but if you think that your business is not very, based on very moral principle, "So I should give up," then Bhagavad-gītā you'll find that "Don't give up.".
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[[Vanisource:670329 - Lecture SB 01.02.17 - San Francisco|670329 - Lecture SB 01.02.17 - San Francisco]]
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The science of God becomes perceivable by such person who is situated in the brahma-bhūta, I mean to, status. So from that, brahma-bhūta status we have to work, and that work is recommended here:

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:buddhi-yukto jahātīha
:ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte
:tasmād yogāya yujyasva
:yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam 
:([[Vanisource:BG 2.50 (1972)|BG 2.50]])
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Now, so . . . so long we have got this material body, we have to work. We cannot stop working. That is not possible. But we have to adopt the tactics of yoga so that even by doing ordinary work in which by destiny or by circumstances I am put into, there is no harm.

You'll find in Bhagavad-gītā that even if you find in your own occupation there is . . . suppose I am occupied in some business in which I have to speak lie. Without speaking lie, my business cannot go on. Now, suppose if that is the position. Now, speaking lie is not very good thing, but if you think that your business is not very, based on very moral principle, "So I should give up," then Bhagavad-gītā you'll find that "Don't give up."

Even if you are put into such circumstances that your livelihood cannot go on without that unfair means, still, you should not give it up, but you should try to make it purified. You should try to make it purified. How it is purified? Now, you should not take the fruitive result of your work. That is meant for God.
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