Duty of Grihasta

1. A grhastha's first duty is to be fully dependent on Vasudeva, Krsna, and to try to satisfy Him in all respects by executing one's prescribed devotional service.

This devotional service will depend on the instructions of authorities and the association of devotees who are actually engaged in devotional service.

3. The beginning of devotional service is sravanam, or hearing.

One must hear from the mouths of realized souls.

In this way the grhastha's attraction to his wife and children will gradually be reduced.

4. Should earn what is required and not over-endeavor simply to accumulate money and unnecessarily increase in material comforts.

5. Although a grhastha should externally be very active in earning his livelihood, he should internally be situated as a fully self-realized person, without attachment for material gains.

6. Grhastha should be engaged in occupational duties advised by the spiritual master and sastra.

7. Specifically a grhastha should engage in agricultural activities to earn money.

8. A grhastha should be very much affectionate toward lower animals, birds and bees, treating them exactly like his own children.

9. Whatever a grhastha may possess he should equally distribute to all living entities, without discrimination.

The best process is to distribute prasada.

10. A grhastha should not be very much attached to his wife; he should engage even his own wife in serving a guest with all attention.

11. Whatever money a grhastha accumulates by the grace of God he should spend in five activities, namely

worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

receiving Vaisnavas and saintly persons,

distributing prasada to the general public and to all living entities,

offering prasada to his forefathers, and also

offering prasada to his own self.

12. The grhastha should also visit the holy places of pilgrimage mentioned in the puranas.

13. In this way he should fully engage in worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the benefit of his family, his society, his country, and humanity at large.