Lecture at World Health Organization | Geneva

Prabhupada, Geneva, June 6, 1974: […] So our Krishna consciousness movement, we are suggesting from the sastras, from the Vedic literature, how to reorganize the human society. Actually, there is no scarcity of food, there is no scarcity of land. Everything, there is sufficient. From the Isopanisad, we understand… Not only this planet; in every planet there is sufficient arrangement.

purnam adah purnam idam purnat purnam udacyate purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasi… [Isopanisad, Invocation]

It is factually complete. There is no problem. The problem is that we are not following the principles of life as they are enunciated, as they are enjoined. Dharma, the word dharma, it is not a religious sentiment. Dharma means occupational duty.

From Vedic literature, we understand that dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. Dharma means the laws given by God. Unfortunately, at the present moment, they have no information what is God and what is God’s law and how to abide God’s law. They’re all in ignorance and they’re manufacturing their own way of life, every day changing.

This will not solve the problems of human society. If we actually follow the Vedic injunction, it is very simple thing. The whole idea is that everything belongs to God. Actually, that’s a fact. This is the injunction…isavasyam idam sarvam.

Now this United Nations, they’re trying to be united, but actually, in the heart, they have got this, “This is my land,” “This is my land.” The American thinking, “This is my land.” The German thinking, “Oh, it is my land.” Indians thinking, “My land”. Actually, there is no knowledge. Every land belongs to God. But they cannot come to this conclusion because they are godless, without any God consciousness.

Actually, that’s a fact. Just as the America, two hundred years ago, this land did not belong to the Americans. It was there already. So to whom it belonged? Similarly, everything… This is the statement of the Vedas: isavasyam idam sarvam.

If we accept this, if the United Nations makes this resolution, that “From this date, let us dissolve this so-called nationality, accept this whole planet belonging to us, all the human beings, all the animals, all the birds, beasts, trees, as they are on this planet,” if we accept this philosophy, there is no question of chaotic condition of the society.

Actually, that is the fact. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that whatever there is, property, on the land, on the sky, or on the water, anywhere, everything belongs to God. This is, some way or other, communistic idea, but it is spiritual communistic idea. The Communists, they are making their center as the state. The Bhagavata makes the center as God.

Everything belongs to God. The Communist says that everything belongs to the state, and the Bhagavata says everything belongs to God. So from the idea, this is very nice idea.

Krishna claims in the Bhagavad-gita that “All the species of life, they are My sons. I am the seed-giving father.” So the property is belonging to God, the supreme father, and we are the sons of God. Not only human being. Krishna says, sarva-yonisu: “All species of life.”

Therefore God has provided for everyone’s sufficient necessities of life. For example, just like we are human beings, only 400,000’s of species. But other species, they’re eight million. Eighty hundred thousand species. In Africa, there are millions of elephants. They eat, at a time, fifty kilograms. Kg. What is that Kg?

Devotees: Kilos.

Prabhupada: Kilos. But they are also eating. There is no scarcity of food for them. So it is a fact that eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. But because we don’t believe in God, we manufacture our own ideas; therefore we create simply chaotic condition.
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