Just like these boys, they are being trained up to think of Krsna twenty-four hours. Kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31]. Just like we have constructed this pandal. Our business is to preach Krsna. So the energy employed for constructing this temple, that is also Krsna, that energy. Somebody is doing… Anything… Nirbandhah krsna-sambandhe yuktam vairagyam ucyate. If our activities are always dovetailed for Krsna’s satisfaction, that is called vairagya. Vairagya. A man is engaged in business. That’s all right. But if the fruit of that business is made, is meant for Krsna, then sva-karmana tam abhyarcya [Bg. 18.46]. That is sva-karmana. Generally, we work for our sense gratification. “I have got this money. I must use for my sense gratification or for my relative’s sense gratification or for my country’s sense gratification, for my society’s sense gratification.” So this is materialism. But when the same thing is turned for Krsna’s sense gratification, that is spiritual. That is the difference between prema and kama. Kama. It has been very simplified by Kaviraja Krsnadasa Gosvami in his Caitanya-caritamrta: atmendriya-priti-vancha tare bali ‘kama’ [Cc. Adi 4.165]. Atmendriya-priti. If you want to satisfy your senses, that is called kama, lust. Krsnendriya-priti-iccha dhare ‘prema’ nama. The same thing, when you try to satisfy the senses of Krsna, that is called prema.
Bhagavad-gita 2.1
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Ahmedabad, December 7, 1972