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MUSIC: “Govindam adi purusam” by Atmarama das
Srila Prabhupada, September 5, 1973, Stockholm — Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. So God is maintaining everyone. So difference is that He is so powerful, He can maintain every living entity. He’s maintaining the elephants in Africa, who eat, at a time, forty kilos. He’s supplying food.
There’s no scarcity of food in the jungle for the elephants. Neither there is scarcity… In the hole of your room, you’ll find hundreds and thousands of ants. Who is feeding them, within the hole? Unless they’re eating, sleeping, the same thing are there. How they are living very nicely? But who is giving them food within the hole? A small hole.
You did not provide that hole. You did not provide their food. But there are hundreds and millions of ants. They’re living there within the hole very happily. Sometimes they come out. We see: “Oh, wherefrom so many hundreds coming?” So eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. That is God. He’s supplying food.
So there are 8,400,000 different forms of living entities. Out of that, 400,000 are human beings. Out of that, many are uncivilized. The uncivilized aborigines live in the jungle. They have no economic problem. They’re also human being. They never come to city for food. They are maintaining themselves.
The elephants are maintaining. The ants are maintaining. Why the civilized, a few men, they have got so many problems? Because they… We are not the only living entities. There are 8,400,000 different forms of living entities. They’re all being maintained by the Supreme Lord. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that sarva-yoninu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah: [Bg. 14.4] “As many forms are there, in all different species,” aham bija-pradah pita, “I am the Father.”
The father maintains the sons, as we see actually. He’s maintaining. So why you are so much…? Our father is rich. He’s not poor. God is not poor. Nad-aisvarya-purna. Six kinds of opulence fully. So why are you talking of this over-population, scarcity of food? Why? Actually the father is God. He’s maintaining.
And factually we see how many human beings, civilized human beings, are there. The other living beings are many hundred thousand times bigger quantity. If they can be maintained by God, what we have done, that He’ll not maintain us? He’ll maintain us. He’s maintaining. So many people they say, “India is starving.” I am Indian. I never see any man starving and died. I’ve never seen. This is simply advertisement.
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