You cannot improve your economic position simply by working hard. That is not possible. You work hard or not work, whatever is destined to you, youll get it. Therefore our energy should be utilized that mal-loka-kāmo mad-anugrahārthaḥ. The energy should be utilized how to please Kṛṣṇa. That should be done. Energy should be utilized for that purpose, not waste energy simply for a false hope that I shall become happy. I shall do this. I shall do that. I shall make money like this. I... The story of the potter The potter is planning. He has got few pots and he is planning, Now I have got these four pots and I will sell. I will make some profit. Then there will be ten pots. Then Ill sell ten pots, Ill make some profit. Ill get twenty pots and then thirty pots, forty pots. In this way I shall become millionaire. And at that time I shall marry, and I shall control my wife in this way and that way. And if she is disobedient, then I shall kick her like this. So when he kicked, he kicked the pots and all the pots broke. [laughter] So then his dream is gone. You see? Similarly, we are simply dreaming. With few pots we are simply dreaming that These pots will be increased into so many pots, so many pots, so many pots, then finished. Dont make imagination, make plan. [Srimad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.15—Vṛndāvana, November 3, 1976]
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