While doing our duties responsibly, we should be intelligent
enough not to add on to our response-abilities by taking additional loads due
to our egoistic initiative; otherwise we are simply purchasing trouble. Such an
egoistic person thinks, “He is doing so much work. I must show the world that I
am greater than him.” And so one takes on so much load on oneself that one has
no time for god; no time for one’s own family, no time for even the basic
activities of life. In this way, one becomes practically crazy working 14 or 16
hours a day. And there is no end to such work. How can such a person who, in order
to satisfy his inflated ego, is caught up in unending materialistic activities
and the concomitant immeasurable anxieties, ever attained peace of mind? So one
should do one’s job properly and, at the same time, set aside sufficient time
for cultivating one’s inward life by chanting, reading scriptures and coming
with one’s family to worship the supreme Lord Krishna.
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