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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 1 - 6"><h3>BG Chapters 1 - 6</h3>
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<div id="BG416_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="169" link="BG 4.16" link_text="BG 4.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.16|BG 4.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all misfortune.</p>
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<div id="BG416_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="169" link="BG 4.16" link_text="BG 4.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.16|BG 4.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that one cannot ascertain the ways of religion simply by imperfect experimental knowledge. Actually, the principles of religion can only be laid down by the Lord Himself. Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.19|SB 6.3.19]]). No one can manufacture a religious principle by imperfect speculation. One must follow in the footsteps of great authorities like Brahmā, Śiva, Nārada, Manu, the Kumāras, Kapila, Prahlāda, Bhīṣma, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Yamarāja, Janaka, and Bali Mahārāja. By mental speculation one cannot ascertain what is religion or self-realization. Therefore, out of causeless mercy to His devotees, the Lord explains directly to Arjuna what action is and what inaction is. Only action performed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can deliver a person from the entanglement of material existence.</p>
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<div id="BG417_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="170" link="BG 4.17" link_text="BG 4.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.17|BG 4.17, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>If one is serious about liberation from material bondage, one has to understand the distinctions between action, inaction and unauthorized actions. One has to apply oneself to such an analysis of action, reaction and perverted actions because it is a very difficult subject matter. To understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness and action according to its modes, one has to learn one's relationship with the Supreme; i.e., one who has learned perfectly knows that every living entity is an eternal servitor of the Lord and that consequently one has to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The entire Bhagavad-gītā is directed toward this conclusion. Any other conclusions, against this consciousness and its attendant actions, are vikarmas, or prohibited actions. To understand all this one has to associate with authorities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and learn the secret from them; this is as good as learning from the Lord directly. Otherwise, even the most intelligent persons will be bewildered.</p>
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<div id="BG418_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="171" link="BG 4.18" link_text="BG 4.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 4.18|BG 4.18, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is naturally free from the bonds of karma. His activities are all performed for Kṛṣṇa; therefore he does not enjoy or suffer any of the effects of work. Consequently he is intelligent in human society, even though he is engaged in all sorts of activities for Kṛṣṇa. Akarma means without reaction to work. The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear, so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore he engages himself in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Because everything is done for Kṛṣṇa, he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge of this service. Those who are engaged in this process are known to be without desire for personal sense gratification. The sense of eternal servitorship to Kṛṣṇa makes one immune to all sorts of reactionary elements of work.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 5"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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<div id="SB5266_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="642" link="SB 5.26.6" link_text="SB 5.26.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.26.6|SB 5.26.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (4.17):</p>
:karmaṇo hy api boddhavyaṁ
:boddhavyaṁ ca vikarmaṇaḥ
:akarmaṇaś ca boddhavyaṁ
:gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ
<p>"The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is. "One should understand the nature of karma, vikarma and akarma, and one must act accordingly. This is the law of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The conditioned souls, who have come to this material world for sense gratification, are allowed to enjoy their senses under certain regulative principles. If they violate these regulations, they are judged and punished by Yamarāja. He brings them to the hellish planets and properly chastises them to bring them back to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. By the influence of māyā, however, the conditioned souls remain infatuated with the mode of ignorance. Thus in spite of repeated punishment by Yamarāja, they do not come to their senses, but continue to live within the material condition, committing sinful activities again and again.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3>
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<div id="SB6127_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="448" link="SB 6.12.7" link_text="SB 6.12.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.12.7|SB 6.12.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Victory is always with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As for the subordinate living entities, they fight under the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Victory or defeat is not actually theirs; it is an arrangement by the Lord through the agency of material nature. Pride in victory, or moroseness in defeat, is useless. One should fully depend on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is responsible for the victory and defeat of all living entities. The Lord advises, niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ: "Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction." The living entity is ordered to act according to his position. Victory or defeat depends on the Supreme Lord. Karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana: "You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of actions." One must act sincerely, according to his position. Victory or defeat depends on the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB61651_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="629" link="SB 6.16.51" link_text="SB 6.16.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.16.51|SB 6.16.51, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All material activities are actually illusory, and progress in illusion is simply a waste of time. These illusory activities are called akārya, and one must learn of them from the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (4.17):</p>
:karmaṇo hy api boddhavyaṁ
:boddhavyaṁ ca vikarmaṇaḥ
:akarmaṇaś ca boddhavyaṁ
:gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ
<p>"The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is." One must learn of these directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, as Anantadeva, is instructing King Citraketu because of the advanced stage of devotional service he achieved by following the instructions of Nārada and Aṅgirā.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Renunciation Through Wisdom"><h3>Renunciation Through Wisdom</h3>
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<div id="RTW51_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="39" link="RTW 5.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 5.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We need to accept one fact: The energy of the omnipotent Supreme Lord, which carries out the work of creation, maintenance, and annihilation, is in no respect inferior to our puny potency. Therefore God does not have to consult anyone about His or our difficulties or advantages. The question is, What is our duty? In the Bhagavad-gītā (4.16-17) the Lord says,</p>
:kiṁ karma kim akarmeti
:kavayo 'py atra mohitāḥ
:tat te karma pravakṣyāmi
:yaj jñātvā mokṣyase 'śubhāt
<p>Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all misfortune. The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is.</p>
<p>The confidential truth about what constitutes good action is almost impenetrable. Some hold that good action consists of executing one's social responsibilities. This is what common men generally understand by good action. But a few verses after the ones quoted above, Lord Kṛṣṇa uses the phrase brahma-karma to describe good action, and the word brahma points to Brahman. Therefore some say work done on the platform of Brahman is good action. Others say that good action includes works beneficial for the self, the society, the nation, and humanity at large. When a person acts with such lofty intentions, he is surely known as a good man. Indeed, his actions are certainly noble compared with those of persons with warped mentalities. This kind of action is not buddhi-yoga, however, because such philanthropic works can at best replace one set of people's mundane desires with a new set, but they can never completely root out these unwanted desires from within the heart. Philanthropic activities cannot prepare us for unalloyed devotional service, which is uncontaminated by empirical knowledge and fruitive action.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG41118LosAngelesJanuary81969_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="163" link="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969|Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The action, inaction, and perverted action—these three things are very important subject matter for understanding. Here the same example. It is very simple to understand. The same example. Your position, you first of all you must know what is your position. The position is Kṛṣṇa says that all these living entities are My part and parcel. That is your position. Lord Caitanya also says that jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa (Cc. Madhya 20.108-109). As part and parcel.</p>
<p>This is very easy to understand. Just like this finger is the part and parcel of your body. The hand is the part and parcel of your body. The leg is the part and parcel of your body. So we are all part and parcel of the Supreme. So what is our duty? What is the duty of this finger? "Now I wish that you stand like this." The finger is standing like this. It is executing my order. If I say, "Close," finger immediately closed. So this is the duty.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG41118LosAngelesJanuary81969_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="163" link="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969|Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa then what is my duty? My duty is to act what Kṛṣṇa says, that's all. That is my action. Without knowing this, whatever I do, that is perverted action. Just like in diseased condition this finger cannot act according to my order. "Oh, there is some pain. If I want to make it stand like that, oh, I feel pain," because there is diseased condition. Similarly, when we do not act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness that is our diseased condition of life. That is not normal condition. In normal condition we shall be all prepared to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That we should know. Then our action will be right.</p>
<p>Otherwise all inaction, not inaction, perverted action. Inaction is different. Inaction means what you do there is no reaction. That is inaction. Yes.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG41118LosAngelesJanuary81969_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="163" link="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969|Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Eighteen: "One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men and he is in the transcendental position although engaged in all sorts of activities." Purport: "A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is naturally free from the resultant action of work. His activities are all performed with Kṛṣṇa and therefore he does not enjoy or suffer any of the effects of the world."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Reaction means when you enjoy or suffer. That is called reaction. Inaction means when there is no result on your account.</p>
<p>Just like you are working on account of the state. The state orders you to fight so you are fighting, you are killing so many men. There is no reaction. But without state's order if you kill one man, immediately becomes a murderer. There is reaction immediately. This is very simple to understand. Similarly, if you act on the supreme order there is no reaction and if you act on your own account there will be reaction. Own account means whatever you do, either you suffer or you enjoy. But if you want to be inactive, neither suffering nor enjoying, in the neutral state, that is required, that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG41118LosAngelesJanuary81969_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="163" link="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969|Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Can you explain, Prabhupāda, once again what action in action and inaction in action?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Action, just like you are active. You are working, you all Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees, you are also working. You are not sitting idly, but it is inaction. Inaction in this sense that it is not producing any reaction. It has no reaction. But others, those who are not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are also busy but they are producing their reaction. So things which are not producing reaction, that is inaction. One who can see that "I am acting in this way, there is no reaction," that is inaction. And one who sees that "I am doing this but there is reaction," that is action. So it requires little intelligence to see how it is action or inaction. Therefore it is said that one who can see action in inaction and inaction in action, he is intelligent.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG417BombayApril61974_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="176" link="Lecture on BG 4.17 -- Bombay, April 6, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.17 -- Bombay, April 6, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.17 -- Bombay, April 6, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.17 -- Bombay, April 6, 1974]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: Translation: "The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is, and what inaction is."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda:</p>
:karmaṇo hy api boddhavyaṁ
:boddhavyaṁ ca vikarmaṇaḥ
:akarmaṇaś ca boddhavyaṁ
:gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ
<p>The same principle of working order is being discussed by Kṛṣṇa again in this verse. The beginning was cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]). We should remember the same principle always. Four classes are divided according to quality and karma. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, karmaṇo hy api boddhavyam. What is actually work. Boddhavyaṁ ca vikarmaṇaḥ. Vikarmaṇaḥ means forbidden. This is the human life's business. He should know what is actual work and what is forbidden work.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG418BombayApril71974_5" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="178" link="Lecture on BG 4.18 -- Bombay, April 7, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.18 -- Bombay, April 7, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.18 -- Bombay, April 7, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.18 -- Bombay, April 7, 1974]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: (leads chanting) Translation: "One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda:</p>
:karmaṇy akarma yaḥ paśyed
:akarmaṇi ca karma yaḥ
:sa buddhimān manuṣyeṣu
:sa yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.18|BG 4.18]])
<p>I have been requested to simply translate this verse, Hindi. So... (Hindi) Intelligent, buddhimān (Hindi). The subject matter is very easy and difficult also. The example is given, just like a boy flying kite, and with that, what is called, reel, he is doing like that. But in one way the kite is coming down, and in the other way the kite is going up. And one who is seeing from outside, he sees only the boy is moving the reel. That's all.</p>
<p>Similarly, unless one is very intelligent, he cannot understand what is karma and akarma. That is the whole subject matter of Bhagavad-gītā. Arjuna was thinking that "I am going to commit some sinful activities by killing my kinsmen, the other side, my brothers, my nephews, my master, my grandfather, my so many relatives." So he was seeing sinful activity in that fight. So long there is deliberation of sinful and pious activities, that is called karma. Karma has got two results, either suffering or enjoying. Of course, in this material world there is no enjoyment. But with the hope of enjoyment, we agree to suffer. And that is called enjoyment.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJeanPaulSartre_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="19" link="Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre|Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: That faith is not to choose, but that is a choice, as Kṛṣṇa explains in the Bhagavad-gītā, that there is action and inaction, and one who can see action in so-called inaction, he is intelligent. He is in that category of unintelligent people. They take this form of inaction as being inaction. And so he is thinking this so-called drifting as no choice; it is simply a way to make a choice very easily. You are choosing to go down the river with the current. It's choosing to remain in animal life.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: To be controlled completely by external forces.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationSeptember241969London_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="21" link="Room Conversation -- September 24, 1969, London" link_text="Room Conversation -- September 24, 1969, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- September 24, 1969, London|Room Conversation -- September 24, 1969, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yamunā: What does the śloka in Bhagavad-gītā that says, action in inaction and inaction in action...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, inaction means we do not enjoy the result of your action.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkOctober161975Johannesburg_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="216" link="Morning Walk -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg" link_text="Morning Walk -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg|Morning Walk -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: In Bhagavad-gītā it is recommended that instead of keeping yourself lazy without working, better to steal. Better to steal.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: How is that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? That is there. Stealing is bad work, bad work. It is also working, but bad work. So Kṛṣṇa recommends that instead of keeping yourself lazy, better do bad work.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "Action is better than inaction."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Yes.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: A man cannot even keep his own body in shape.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So stealing is still better than keeping oneself lazy.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: "It is better to perform one's duty, even though it may be imperfect, than to perform another's duty"?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. (laughter)</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationJune241976NewVrindaban_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="159" link="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 24, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dhṛṣṭadyumna:</p>
:niyataḥ kuru karma tvaṁ
:karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ
:śarīra-yatrāpi ca te
:na prasiddhyed akarmaṇaḥ
<p>"Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties. They accuse us that we are escaping. Huh? What is that? We do not escape. We are always busy.</p>
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