We each must learn how to work. To work properly, we have to change our consciousness. Work is not meant simply to maintain the material body but as an offering to Krishna. Through work, we learn to place Krishna in the center of our lives. If we want to place Krishna in the center of our lives, then we must hear and chant regularly. If we don’t, we will forget why we are working. We will think that we are working only to maintain the body and its extension—family, society, and nation. We will not remember that the goal of all work is to give pleasure to Krishna and by working in this consciousness, we increase our attachment to Krishna.
(BG 13.26 Nikolaev, June 1996)