Nārada Muni has said in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
- tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer
- bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi
- ko va vābhadram abhūd amuṣya kiṁ . . .
- (SB 1.5.17)
This verse is very important. He says that if one takes sentimentally this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, tyaktvā sva-dharmam . . . just like in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, you young men, young boys and girls, are coming. You had some engagement previously, undoubtedly. You may be you were a student, you may be businessman or so on, so on. Everyone has got . . . at least you had some business for LSD. So you have given up all this. Tyaktvā sva-dharmam. Somehow or other you were all engaged in some business. That is called sva-dharma. Sva-dharma means one has selected some business. That is his sva-dharma. Generally, if it is systematic, then sva-dharma means brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsa. This is systematic, sva-dharma. Otherwise, everyone must have some engagement. Suppose a thief, he has taken the occupation, or profession, of stealing. That is also sva-dharma. But that is not systematic; that is whimsical. So anyone must have some engagement. That engagement is called sva-dharma, his own business occupation. Sva-karma or sva-dharma.
So if by chance somebody becomes attracted by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and gives up his profession, good profession or bad profession . . . there is no good profession in this material world. Everything is bad. That is . . . here we have divided, "This is good, this is bad." This is mental concoction. It has no value, because material world is bad. I have given this example many times: just like stool, the upside and downside. Downside is moist and upside is dry. If somebody says, "This side is very nice," what is this nonsense? It is stool. Why do you forget, that the dry side is good and moist side is bad, but it is stool, this side or that side? Similarly, Caitanya-caritāmṛta kaj, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, has said,
- 'dvaite' bhadrābhadra-jñāna, saba—'manodharma'
- 'ei bhāla, ei manda'—ei saba 'bhrama'
- (CC Antya 4.176)
Dvaite . . . in the material world, dvaite bhadrābhadra, "This is good, this is bad," it is all mental concoction.