So Narada Muni says, tyaktva sva-dharmam. Sva-dharmam means one's prescribed occupational duties. So long we have got this body we have to do something. Without doing something we cannot live. The material world will not allow you, that you cannot do anything and you'll be provided. No. Whatever you may be, you may be President Nixon or ordinary man in the street, everyone has to do something. That is not possible. There is a verse in the Visnu Purana, trtiya-saktir isyate [Cc. Madhya 6.154]. There the situation, material situation, is so stringent, that without working, you cannot live. You'll die. There is an example in the Hitopadesa. Na hi suptasya simhasya pravisanti mukhe mrgah. Suptasya simhasya. Simha means lion. If the lion thinks that "I am so powerful animal, king of the forest. Why shall I work?" Therefore, it is said that if he does not work, then he'll have to starve. Even though he's a lion. Because he may be lion, but if he sleeps, that "I am king. Let me sleep and my food will come automatically in my mouth," that is not possible. This is the example. Very good example. Na hi suptasya simhasya pravisanti mukhe mrgah. A lion is sleeping. If he does not work, he'll also starve. He'll also starve. And what to speak of cats and dogs. So this is not possible. Therefore, there is sva-dharma. Sva-dharma means, you are in brahminical quality, your work is this. You are in martial spiritone who is intelligent, for him, studying Vedas, understanding the philosophy, preaching for the good of the society, train them, guide them, this is brahmana's business. Brahmana is not going to work in the factory. That is not brahmana's business. But in modern civilization, everyone should go to factory. Never mind whether you are brahmana or sudra or a... This is the mistake. Therefore, if I am not fit for a certain thing and if I am engaged in that business, that will be failure. That will be failure. For a particular type of business, occupation, one must have particular type of brain. So therefore this is division. Not that everyone is of the same type. You cannot find. There is not... Because the world is being conducted by the three modes of nature, you cannot find all men of the same category. There must be intelligent class of men, there must be martial spirit, administrative class of men, there must be business minded men. There must be sudras, they do not know anything, they want to serve only, master. So therefore, scientifically it is divided. Mukha bahu rupadebhyo(?). Just like in your body you find scientifically it is designed by God or Lord Brahma: "This is brain department, this is arms department, this is belly department, this is leg department." All of them required. You cannot avoid any one of them. This is called sva-dharma. One must be fixed up to his own position. That is the real perfect social system.

Now here it is said, tyaktva sva-dharmam. This is material division. The spiritual is different. So far... I am combination of matter and spirit; so far my body is concerned, there is division. But when I come to Krsna consciousness, it is not like that. That is simply for everyone. Either he's externally a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, American, Indian, black, white, it doesn't matter. That is bodily. When you come to the spiritual platform, that is one. Because spirit is one.

So here it is said, bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi. Yadi, not always. If sometimes one falls down, without... Then, yatra kva va abhadram abhud amusya kim. Then what is the loss there? He's not a loser. Still he's gainer. Because for the time being, whatever he has done sincerely, serving Krsna, that is credited forever, eternally. It will be never lost. Mind that. Do sincerely, and you'll be never lost. Kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati [Bg. 9.31], Krsna says. "My dear Arjuna, you declare it, that none of My devotees will ever be vanquished. I'll give you protection." Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami [Bg. 18.66]. So do it sincerely. Don't think that "Even if I fall, there is no loss." No, don't think like that. Why I shall fall? I've taken to Krsna's shelter, why shall you give it up? This is my life. But even if you fall down, that is also said, so there is no loss. There is no loss because, suppose if you have executed fifty percent. Fifty percent you could not do. You fall down again. In another place it is also said, yoga-bhrasto 'bhijayate. Sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrasto 'bhijayate [Bg. 6.41]. Yoga-bhrasta: falling down from devotional service, he gets next chance again. He gets birth in very good family, rich family, and pure family, brahmana family, so that again he'll be given chance. "Now, you begin again." These are explained, you'll find. Therefore, Narada Muni says that even if he is, for the time being, failure, then there is no loss. But on the other hand, ko va artha aptah abhajatam sva-dharmatah. Suppose one is very nicely executing his occupational duty, he's a businessman, very routine work, doing business, making profit and everyone appreciates his routine work. Even if he does so, or he is a very nice brahmana, nice ksatriya, so he has done his duty very nicely, but he has not taken to Krsna consciousness. Sastra says, what he has gained? What he has gained? In many places it is confirmed, in Bhagavata, that,

Therefore the conclusion is, try to execute Krsna consciousness somehow or other. Even whatever you have finished, that is your lasting credit. Don't be neglectful. Tyaktva sva-dharmam. Svalpam apy asyathis is the most important line in Krsna consciousness. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya. This occupational duty, Krsna consciousness... There are many examples. Just like Ajamila. Ajamila, it is very nice example in the sastra. Ajamila, the story of Ajamila. He was a son of a brahmana and he was very nicely trained up, brahmacari, and when he was young, he was married also. So he was very faithful to his wife, father, mother, and executing the duties of a brahmana. But one day he went to collect some flowers for worshiping Deity, his father was old, he was helping. So, in the meantime, he saw a sudra woman and man. They were embracing and kissing one another. So he became sexually agitated. There is that possibility. Therefore there is restriction of intermingling of woman and man. Because as soon as one falls a prey to the sex desire, then his whole career may be spoiled. May be spoiled. But if he is strongly in Krsna consciousness, there is no such chance. But this brahmana Ajamila, he saw. Naturally, he was young man, and the woman also played some trick.

So later on he became a victim of that woman. She was a prostitute. And then he forgot his father and mother, his wife, everything, home, everything forgotten. So he became addicted to that prostitute, and to maintain he became a thief, rogue, burglar, drunkard, anything, someway or other bring money, bring money, bring money. You see. So he was doing that. In this way his life was spoiled. And he begot ten children in that prostitute's womb. So the last child... Naturally the last son, the youngest son because very father's pet. So he was taking care of the son. And his name was Narayana. That is the system of Vedic..., children are given..., Narayana dasa. Just like we give name, spiritual name. So when he was old enough, he was going to die out of disease. His so-called prostitute wife neglected. She went away. So the Yamadutas, the servants of the Yamaraja, they came to take him, because he was the greatest sinner, sinful number one. So he has to go to Yamaraja for punishment. So they came and he was very much afraid. He was seeing, one can see vicious, I mean to say, forms of the Yamaraja. So he was crying. So because he was pet to that youngest child Narayana, he thought, "My son, this Narayana can save me." He chanted, "Narayana!" Oh, this "Narayana" immediately gave him consciousness, that "What this Narayana can help me? If Narayana whom in my younger days I worshiped, He can save me." Immediately. Immediately Narayana-sena came here, "Yes." Just see. Svalpam apibecause in the childhood he served Narayana for a few days or few years, he was remembering Narayana, "If that Narayana can save me." So Narayana actually saved him, Narayana. Ante narayana-smrtih [SB 2.1.6]. At the time of death, somehow or other, if you can remember Narayana, Krsna, your life is successful. Therefore, practice, practice, while you are strong, while you are in good life, practice how to remember Narayana, Krsna, always. Therefore Kulasekhara, Maharaja Kulasekhara, he has written his Stotra-mala, very important. In the first stotra he said:

So this is the secret of success. Somehow or other, if you can remember Krsna, ante narayana-smrtih [SB 2.1.6]. Yam yam vapi smaran loke [Bg. 8.6]. This is the way. So there is chance. If we execute Krsna consciousness sincerely, if you execute till it is finished, then it immediatelytyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. If not, even if you have finished certain percentage, still there is chance of perfection, it is such nice thing. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat.

Thank you very much, Hare Krsna. (end)