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Pious activities, according to Veda, everywhere, if you are virtuous, if you give some money in charity, it is virtuous activities. If you give some money for opening hospital, if you give some money for opening schools, free education, these are certainly virtuous activities. But they are also meant for sense gratification.
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[[Vanisource:690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles|690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles]]
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a man who's earning millions of dollars daily, that does not mean he can enjoy mating millions of women. No. That is not possible. His power of mating is same, one who is earning ten dollars. His power of eating is the same with the man, one who is earning ten dollars. So he does not think that, "My enjoyment of life is the same amount with the man who is earning ten dollars. Then why I am working so hard for earning millions of dollars daily? Why I am spoiling my energy in that way?" You see? They are called mūḍha. Na māṁ duṣkṛtinaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]])

Actually he should have engaged, when he earns millions of dollars daily, he should have engaged himself, his time and energy how to understand God, what is the purpose of life. Because he has no economic problem, so he has got enough time; he can utilize in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness. But he does not take part in that way. Therefore he is mūḍha. Mūḍha means, actually, mūḍha means ass. So his intelligence is not very nice.

"A person is said to have attained yoga when, having renounced all material desires . . ." If one is in perfection of yoga, then he's satisfied. He has no more any material desire. That is perfection. "He neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities." Fruitive activities are also . . . fruitive activities means you earn something for sense gratification. One is practically engaged in some sense gratification, and one is collecting money for sense gratification.

So the fruitive activities, suppose pious activities. Pious activities, according to Veda, everywhere, if you are virtuous, if you give some money in charity, it is virtuous activities. If you give some money for opening hospital, if you give some money for opening schools, free education, these are certainly virtuous activities. But they are also meant for sense gratification.

Suppose if I give in charity for distributing education, then in my next life I will be getting good facilities for education, I'll be highly educated, or being educated I shall get nice post. But at the end, what is the idea? If I get a good post, if I get a good position, how do I utilize it? For sense gratification. Nicely, that's all.

Because I do not know anything else. That is fruitive activities. If I go to heaven, a better standard of life . . . suppose, in your America, a better standard of life than India. But what does this mean, "better standard of life"? The same eating, sleeping, in a better type. That's all. You are not doing anything more.

They are also eating. They are eating some coarse grain, you are eating very nice thing—but eating. Not beyond this eating. So my better standard of life does not mean any spiritual realization. A better standard of eating, sleeping, mating, that's all. So this is called fruitive activity.
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