Nowadays we have to tell people you don’t live to work, you work to live. So just begin with that understanding that your career is not the goal of life. Your career is important. Your career is something you have to put time and energy into. But your career should lead to opportunities to do something amazing in the world. And the most amazing thing as we know is to give spiritual um opportunity to other people. So I would say both of those are valid paths. Some people see their career as their service and by having that influence, by having that um position, they can do amazing things in the world. If you do decide to go on that route, just make sure that in the process of getting to the top of your corporate field, you don’t lose your Krishna consciousness. Sometimes you have to do 60, 70our weeks. And if you end up neglecting your spiritual practice, neglecting spending time with spiritual people, then you might find yourself at the top of your career but with uh not so much spirituality in the heart and then it’s kind of like the operation was successful but the patient died. Um so that’s a valid route but make sure you keep a good basic spiritual practice and there is also something to be said for just simplifying your life. We have so many amazing projects now, stuff you can do outside of your work. And so if you can get to the point where you work smart, so you don’t have to spend 60 or 70 hours in the office, but you can get it all done in 10 or 20 hours and then you can do direct um projects that you want to do or services or whatever.
Svayam Bhagavan Keshava Maharaja delivered a class titled ‘Life Dilemmas – What to Do’ in New York City, USA in July 2025.0:00:00 Pre-roll0:00:32 Class
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