So, this fruitive activity involves doing any activity so that you can enjoy the result. It is ‘Avaram’. God is telling that it is abominable because it is stealing. It is just like a worker creating any product in the factory so that he can use it for his own self. That is stealing; that is abominable. That is criminal mentality. So, God has given everything. Everything should be offered simply to God. God is a person. This is the revelation of Bhagavad Gita. That is why God is called Bhagavan a person.

           And why is this person so demanding? Give it to me. Give it to me. No, actually, he’s not demanding. This demand is not of an autocratic ruler. This demand is that of an eternal lover. A lover. Express, please do it for me. Give something to me to eat that gives pleasure in the relationship. Thus, we will find further in the Bhagavad Gita that Krishna is telling ‘Patram Pushpam Phalam toyomi bhakta prachatai.’ If you are an ordinary person, you are not a very rich person. At least you can grow a plant in your house, which everybody can do and offer the leaf of that plant to me. Is it a very difficult task? You cannot even do that. At least you have water in your house; please offer that water to me.

           Why is Krishna telling this? Because Krishna knows. Unless we engage ourselves in this loving relationship with God, we will never be satisfied. And anyway, we are doing this activity. Nobody works very hard in this world. So that he can enjoy all the money and prosperity that he has, he uses those things for others. He uses them for the people and, for his family members. But unless one uses it in the service of God, there is no satisfaction in the heart.

           A person works very hard for their family. The family is never satisfied. They ask, what have you done for us. And the person, poor fellow, has worked his entire life only for the family to the best of his capacity. But they complain about what you have done, so neither the object of service is satisfied. Neither is the person who is rendering service is satisfied. So when the family is not there, especially in western countries, people have dogs and pets and they want to engage their money in their service. Sometimes they give all the property to dogs. Because a person wants loving reciprocation in their life. So, Krishna knows we living entities can never be satisfied unless we revive our loving relationship with God.

           So, Krishna is not in need of anything. He has everything. So when we offer the result of our activity to God, then what happens? This loving relationship is established and then that satisfies us so much we do not have any material desires. And when we do not have material desires, the nature is designed only to fulfil our desires. Then we will not have a material body and if we do not have a material body, we have a spiritual body and we go to the place where the personality of God is living. That place is called ‘Vaikuntha, Padam Bachamp Tiana Mayam’ that Krishna will explain. So, this is called a broad mentality. This is a loving relationship of liberal mindedness; Krishna has given me everything. Let me work just for Krishna and others with that mentality. Let me work so that I can enjoy. I can neither steal personally what I produce nor can we. I don’t use it for myself. I work very hard so that I can do charity and help others.

           One cannot do charity with stolen goods. That is also a crime. Everything that belongs to God should be used only for God. Now again, please do not think that service of God is exclusive of service to other living entities. We are part and parcel of God. Krishna will explain. So, service to God is automatic. So please do not think service of God will exclude service of family members service of nation. Service to other people. Animals rather all these living entities are automatically served.

           It is not that when we love God, we start hating our family members. No real love for the family arises. Then we love God. Otherwise, nobody can love even family. That is why even among the closest relationships, husband and wife, there is separation. There are so many divorces because people are interested in their own pleasure and, personal pleasure.

           But when we understand that when we love God, then we know my family members are also part and parcel of God. We cannot love a person and hit their fingers. So, we understand if we love God, we are also part of God, an inseparable part of God. So how can I hate them and love God? If it is brought into our life, then a person actually increases his love for his family members, increases his love for all species, and universal welfare happens automatically. If the family members don’t behave nicely, he understands. Oh, still, he should behave nicely because they are part and parcel of God. They may be in ignorance. They are offending me, but I know that they are part and parcel of God. How can I hurt them?

           Thus, all relationships are automatically improved and a person’s duties are automatically fulfilled, just like we do Prasad distribution. Sometimes people take it as poor feeding, so that is not poor feeding. We are distributing ‘prasadam’, the remnants of God to other living entities. By taking the rich and poor without discrimination, they all advance in their knowledge of God and in their love of God. But those people who are poor and hungry are also fed automatically, as social service is taken care of.

           Thus, if a person simply realizes one’s duties towards God, all other duties are automatically fulfilled. But if one forgets his duty towards God, then no, Sir, you cannot be charitable with stolen goods. Your object of charity will not be satisfied, nor will you be satisfied.

           So, Krishna is telling ‘Avaram Karma Tarpana Palheta’: do not become a miser in this human form of life. You can enjoy some temporary happiness by enjoying the results of your work, but then you are being a miser. You do not miss; you simply offer that to God instead of using it for your own self. You can attain the unlimited happiness for which you are hankering, and you can attain immortality.