When duties are assigned, we must see how they are ultimately coming from Krishna. If we don’t see them in that way, then we will always be thinking "I want to do some other duty." How can a society make progress when everybody is always thinking "I want to do something else"? So a devotee must see ultimately that his duties are coming from Krishna. It is Krishna who is arranging it through His representatives to engage everyone in various duties so they may advance in Krishna consciousness and go back to Godhead in the way we described.
March 13, 1991, Kiev