All of our duties should be performed while singing nama sankirtana. Suppose there is a pitcher of water. If we simply add some lemon juice and some sugar, it immediately becomes nectar. Similarly, we must perform so many worldly duties, but if, following in the bhava of our guru, we meditate on Bhagavan while carrying them out, they will all become nectar.
In the conditioned state, we are always considering what is favorable and what is unfavorable to our bhakti. Because we are in the beginning stages, everything appears to be unfavorable to us, and therefore our minds are disturbed. But to the degree which we progress in sadhana bhajana means to that degree the vision of what is unfavorable will diminish. And when one reaches the stage of bhava, he will perceive everything which he previously considered to be unfavorable as favorable.
Actually, nothing in this world is unfavorable to us; it is only due to our present weaknesses and anarthas that we see our environment as unfavorable. Whatever obstacles we are currently facing are due to our own previous misdeeds, and are not the fault of any other person.
Excerpted from "Bhakti Rasayana" page 104 - 105
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