“By executing one’s occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one’s constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness, and by thus executing so-called material duties he can easily enter into the kingdom of God.” (Shrimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.6)
Based on the above, just by doing our prescribed duties, we can easily enter the kingdom of God.
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 2.47)
We should do our duties but without having any desire for the results. At work, just work hard as a duty without any extra expectations. In sports, try your best without any expectations of winning. Whether you lose or win, accept the result without being agitated.
What are our prescribed duties?
For a father – Take care of the children, wife, elderly parents, and the maintain the home.
For a mother – Take care of the children, husband, elderly, and keep everyone nicely fed.
For the children – Study hard, behave well with everyone and serve the parents and elders.
Sports – Prepare well, play well. Do your best, but don’t expect to always win.
Business people – Engage in trading fairly without cheating.
Trades people – Do the work properly and in a timely manner as agreed upon with the clients.
The above is just a short list, the basic point that EternalReligion.org is trying to get across is that one should live a life in truthfulness, don’t be too materialistic, behave well with everyone, serve everyone, do good to others, and never give pain to anyone. This will take you back to the kingdom of God.
People who make a deceptive show by going to religious places, pretending to be religious but they lie, cheat, treat people badly, and neglect their prescribed duties. For such people, the kingdom of hell awaits them.
“Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance – these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Pṛthā.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagaavd-Gita 16.4)
“There is nothing more sinful than untruthfulness. Because of this, mother earth once said, “I can bear any heavy thing except a person who is a liar.” (Shrimad-Bhagavatam 8.20.4)