These are the statements of the Vedic literature—that you go, go on working, everyone is working according to his capacities. That's all right, go on, there is no question of stopping your work but you must see whether you are gainer or looser by working that way. That—gainer or looser. If you don't make account that whether I am gaining or loosing then what is the. Such kinds of activities are done by monkeys also. They are very active but it is useless activities. Śrama eva hi kevalam. The Vedic śastra says that if you do not calculate whether you are loosing or gaining. If you simply blindly go on working, then such kind of activities is simply waste of time and energy. So we must know how to work. And that is stated in the Vedas. There are two kinds of instruction in the Vedas, pravṛtti-mārga and nivṛtti-mārga. Pravṛtti-mārga means sense enjoyment and nivṛtti-mārga means, I mean to, wind, winding up the business of sense enjoyment. Two kinds of knowledge. Pravṛttir eṣā bhūtānāṁ nivṛttis tu mahā-phalām (Manu-saṁhitā).
Pravṛtti—you have got natural tendency for so many things. The real basic principle of enjoyment is sense enjoyment. The Vedas give instructions that you enjoy your senses but under these laws. Just like. Just like government gives you license. You want to do some business so government gives you some license and in the license the regulative principles are, "You can do this business in this way, in this way, in this way." So this direction is given by the Vedas. What is, what is that direction? In this material world everyone, both man and animal, every living entity, is seeking after sense enjoyment. So Vedas gives instruction to the human society that you enjoy your senses in this way. That is Vedic knowledge. But the ultimate aim is to get you gradually to the conscious of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says that in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.15).