The fruitive activities mentioned in the vedas are like parents giving candies with medicine to the children. The actual purpose is to give the medicine and not the candy, but the kid is persistent not to take the medicine for cure. We are also like that, not taking up direct devotional service with full surrender to the Lord,Devotional Service is the actual medicine which purifies the conditioned souls from being entangled furrther. Candies are the fruitive activities.
The whole Varnashrama system is desgined in such a way that the conditioned souls even though has different levels of attachment to sense objects, everyone can gradually elevate themselves by practising devotional service even while performing occupational duties. The whole idea is to satisfy Lord Vishnu even while acting with daily occupational duties. For the ones who have surpassed the Varnashrama system, this occupational duties are no longer required, but for the sake of educating the people in general, the learned ones may also act. Whatever action a great men performs, the common men pursues. So if the learned may also act according to the occupational duties for the sake of educating the common mass of people.
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