Category:Employed in the Service of God
Theme Analysis
The foundation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the realization that everything belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because everything is an emanation of the Lord's energy, nothing is inherently mundane if it is properly employed in His service. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that true spiritual life does not mean artificially rejecting the material world, but rather adopting the principle of yukta-vairāgya—utilizing every available resource, opulence, and personal talent for the satisfaction of Lord Kṛṣṇa. When everything is engaged in the service of the Lord, the practitioner directly realizes the Vedic truth that everything is Brahman.
The primary cause of our material entanglement is the misuse of our senses. The living entity is given senses to enjoy, but by attempting to enjoy them independently of God, the soul contracts the material disease of repeated birth and death. However, as soon as those very same senses are employed in the service of the Supreme Lord, they are instantly purified. This act of engagement immediately frees the soul from all false material designations. The devotee recognizes that their intelligence, wealth, and high qualities are not their own property, but belong to the Lord.
By executing one's occupational duties and employing the results in the service of God, any person can attain the highest perfection of life. Materialistic persons tirelessly accumulate wealth solely for sense gratification, but the policy of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to redirect that wealth toward the service of Lord Rāmacandra. Ultimately, engaging oneself in the Lord's service grants immediate liberation. A devotee whose energy is fully absorbed in constantly thinking of and serving Kṛṣṇa transcends the bodily concept entirely, ensuring their safe return back home, back to Godhead.
- Universal Ownership: Everything is a product of the Lord's energy and inherently belongs to Him; therefore, everything must be employed in His service.
- Purification of the Senses: Misusing the senses for personal enjoyment causes material bondage, but employing them in the Lord's service instantly purifies them and removes all false designations.
- The Perfection of Duty: The highest perfection of life is achieved simply by executing one's occupational duty and offering the results to the Supreme Lord.
- Transforming Material Energy: Wealth, intelligence, and opulence are not inherently bad; they become sources of liberation when properly directed toward the devotional service of God.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Employed in the Service of God - The Art of Yukta-vairāgya.
Pages in category "Employed in the Service of God"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- A devotee who engages in the service of the Supreme Lord and who constantly thinks of Him should never be considered to have a material body
- A sannyasi is generally in the renounced order of life, but his renunciation will be successful only when his energy is employed in the service of the Lord with great austerity
- As soon as we employ ourselves in the service of the Lord, we are liberated immediately. There is no need to pass through some preliminary process. This very act of engaging one's senses in the service of the Lord is evidence that one is liberated
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- Here (in Sb 3.21.31.) the Lord says: "You will see everything in the world to be nondifferent from Me." This means that everything should be considered a product of the Lord's energy, and therefore everything should be employed in the service of the Lord
- High qualities in man serve one in the attainment of perfection only when they are employed in the service of the Lord
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- I have already told you, Ivory Jewels, conchshell and cow dung are all pure. Everything is pure when employed in the service of the Lord
- In many instances we have seen the diplomacy of Rupa Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and Ramananda Raya employed in the service of the Lord
- In this verse (SB 4.25.28) all these inquiries are made by King Puranjana, the living entity who is bewildered and does not know how to employ his intelligence. Intelligence should be employed in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- It is also confirmed by the Vedanta-sutra - that one can attain the perfection of life by discharging one’s occupational duty and employing the results in the service of the Lord
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- One can attain the perfection of life by discharging one's occupational duty and employing the results in the service of the Lord. This method is confirmed by great personalities like Bodhayana, Tanka, Dramida, Guhadeva, Kapardi and Bharuci
- One is freed from all material designations, and one's senses are purified simply by being employed in the service of the Lord
- One is freed from all material designations, and, simply by being employed in the service of the Lord, one's senses are purified
- One should employ himself in the Lord's service so that the Supreme Lord can take charge of him, and he will not be neglected by his so-called kinsmen
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- The initiated householders are supposed to be Brahmins, and according to scriptural injunction a Brahmin can accept charity for employing the income in the service of the Lord. The boys and girls who chant in the street are also giving in charity
- The materialistic persons, their policy is to take, earn money like anything, and employ it in sense gratification. That is their policy. But our policy is to take away the money from the atheist and employ it to the service of Ramacandra
- The senses are given to me for my enjoyment because I, I wanted it. Now our, the senses are already there in my spiritual life. I am misusing them. Without being, the senses being used in the service of the Lord, I am misusing it
- The senses of the individual being are not his own; the devotee knows that such senses belong to the Supreme Lord and that they can be properly used when they are employed for the service of the Lord
- There are nine different methods of cultivating devotional service such as hearing, chanting, remembering, etc, and all these processes are employed in the first stage of devotional service
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- We are drawn into this material world by desire, but the same desire must be purified and employed in the devotional service of the Lord. Then our disease of wandering in the universe under different forms and conditions will end
- When a mature devotee is blessed with material opulence, he does not become affected adversely, for he knows how to employ material opulence in the service of the Lord. There are many such examples in the history of the world
- When everything is employed in the service of the Lord, we can experience that there is nothing except the Supreme Brahman. The Vedic mantra that "everything is Brahman" is thus realized by us