have to work very hard

Here, in this material world, you have to work very, very hard, just even for maintenance, and what to speak of sense gratification? This is the position. Bhave 'smin klisyanti. Bhave 'smin klisyanti avidya-kama-karmabhih. If you work hard, at least there is some expectation... Just like ordinarily a man, a boy, takes education, works very hard so that he may be very successful in examination. And then he passes. Then he works hard to get a good job. Then, in the job, in the service, he works very hard so that he get..., he may get promotion. So the hard working is going on. You cannot stop it. Klisyanti. But unfortunately, they do not know the aim of life, "Why we are working so hard." That is the difficulty. But generally they want-"We are working hard for sense gratification, that's all; enjoy the senses." That is the whole civilization. (More...)

So intelligent person, they should be aware that "Simply for sense gratification if we are working so hard, then this is being done by the animals also. Then what is the difference between us and the animal?" But they are so mad after sense gratification... Nunam pramattah kurute vi... They are prepared to work for something which one should..., just like stealing or black-marketing and... There are so many things. They are working hard. Even a, a thief, he is risking his life, not to work hard, but he's risking his life. Especially in the Western countries, the burglars, they risk their life because there the law is that anyone trespassing within your house, even ordinarily, you can kill him. Is it not? The law is so hard that even if you, if you enter anyone's gate, anyone's property, without permission, he can kill you. Is it not I am right? Yes. Here in India we don't take it so seriously. So many people are passing here and there. But in your country... I know that one of our boy went to pick up some flowers in Los Angeles, and he was fired. Of course, he did not like to kill him, but the firing was there. So just see. For sense gratification the thief taking the risk of his life. The working... Not only working hard. Those who are not thief, they are working very hard to get some money, honestly or dishonestly, and those who are not very honest, to steal they make so many plans, so many devices to steal at the risk of life. (More...)

So the life in this material world is not very easy-going. Therefore this very word is used, bhave 'smin, bhave 'smin klisyamananam. Everyone is working very, very hard. But they do not know what is the aim. Why they are working so hard, that they do not know. Generally, as I have already explained, that a man works very hard to get some money, some good bank balance, so that in old age he can live very peacefully, without any disturbance. Of course, that is not possible, because at that time he may have money, but he is full of anxieties. A family man, old man, is always cinta-magna, cinta-magna, as "This boy is not well-situated. That boy has not educated..., his education is not yet finished. And that girl has lost his [her] husband. Husbands are rejected." Where is the peace? There cannot be peace. Klisyanti. Again he tries to adjust that boy, that girl, that grandchildren, that..., going on. Therefore Saṅkaracarya, he has said, balas tavat kridasaktah. The children, they are very working hard for playing. They're also getting perspiration, but they are taking pleasure in jumping and this way and that way. So balas tavat kridasaktah. And yuvaka... What is another name of yuvaka? (More...)