activities of devotees

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All circumstances of this world come to such persons as opportunities of

service provided by Godhead Himself. They include the varying conditions of

their minds and bodies among such circumstances. They are thus enabled by

the grace of God, so abundantly provided, to rise above the cares and

anxieties that afflict those who are ignorant of the substance of themselves

and of their relationship to the things of this world. Those who are

spiritually enlightened covet nothing of this world for their own selfish

enjoyment. They employ their bodies and minds and all the circumstances of

this world in the incessant and exclusive service of Godhead. They are

neither workers nor idlers in the worldly sense as they have no hankering

for worldly enjoyment in any form. They do everything by reason of their

connection with Godhead and in order to serve Him. Such activities although

they do not belong to this worldly plane benefit the workers themselves and

humanity at large in the only real sense. But the nature of the activities

of a Vaishnava is not comprehensible to the materialized mind.

 

>From the writings of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasavati