So one who hasn't got faith, for him it is stated, nāyaṁ loko 'sti na paro na sukhaṁ saṁśayātmanaḥ: "Anyone who has no faith, for him there is no profit even during this life, and what to speak of the next life."
- yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇaṁ
- jñāna-sañchinna-saṁśayam
- ātmavantaṁ na karmāṇi
- nibadhnanti dhanañjaya
- (BG 4.41)
Now, Lord Kṛṣṇa says: "O Dhanañjaya, Arjuna, anyone who is working in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or yoga . . ." Yoga means God conscious, or Kṛṣṇa conscious. Everything, anything, any attempt which you perform which you do for spiritual realization, is called yoga. Yoga. So there are many different kinds of yoga, but they have been divided into three: the jñāna-yoga, karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga. Jñāna-yoga means realization of self by culture of philosophical discussion. That is called jñāna-yoga. And dhyāna-yoga . . . oh, and karma- yoga . . . Karma-yoga means that the ordinary persons who are engaged in working . . . that we have got experience, that these people in New York City, they are working day and night. And karma means work and get some profit. That is called karma.
Karma . . . nobody is going to work without any remuneration. Everyone is working for getting some profit. That is called karma. But that ordinary karma and karma-yoga is different. You can engage yourself in ordinary work, but, at the same time, you can become a yogī. How that is possible? When your consciousness is changed. Your consciousness . . .
Now I am thinking that I am working for my maintenance or for my family maintenance or for my society's maintenance or for my country's maintenance. You can go on, widening. Even if you work for international maintenization, maintenance, still, it is not perfect. Even if you work for the whole planetary system, that is imperfect. But when you work for Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is the most perfect work. So we have to work with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the perfection.
Just like several times I have discussed this point, that a big tree, if you have to pour water, then you have to pour water on the root. The tree has millions and billions of leaves, and if you go on pouring water in each and every leaf, neither you'll be able to pour water to all the leaves, neither it is possible to maintain the tree by pouring water on the leaves. You have to pour water on the root. Similarly, our work, our endeavor, whatever we may do, good work or bad work, if it is not done on account of Kṛṣṇa, then that will remain always imperfect. Always imperfect.
Therefore it is advised, yoga . . . yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇam: "You just give up your work or place your working capacity, energy." We have got some energy. We'll work or we'll do anything with our energy. So spiritual self-realization means that energy should be transferred for Kṛṣṇa, or God. That's all. Energy. We have got some stock of energy. That energy should be transferred. You can transfer that energy in so many ways. In whatever way you can do it, it doesn't matter; you have to transfer your energy for Kṛṣṇa.