Krsna consciousness movement does not mean that you give up your occupational duty, give up your home, give up your family. No. There are many grhastas, as we have got. Bhaktivinoda Thakura was a grhasta. He did not give up his home, nor neither his job. He was a magistrate, government official. But he became a great devotee, by culture. What is that culture? Krsna-katha. Simply he was coming from his office, at say 5:30 in the evening, and immediately he would eat food and go to his room and sleep. And then he will rise up at three or five and begin writing books. So he gave us so many nice books, Caitanya Siksamrta especially, and many song books in Bengali, in Hindi, some of them in Sanskrit. So he was in this way engaged. So if one wants to serve Krsna, so Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s life is good example.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.18 — July 19, 1974, New Vrindaban