Raw material has to be taken from God’s stock

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Prabhupada, New York, April 1, 1966: […] Now, what do we work? Now, suppose I am writing books. All right. In which you are writing? On paper. All right, who has given you paper?

Now, you make philosophical study. “Well, paper I purchased from the market.” Market, how does it supply paper? “It is manufactured in mills.” Oh, it is manufactured in mills. Where they get the raw materials? “Oh, from the wood.” How the wood is produced? Oh, then you come to the God. You cannot produce the wood.

You simply bring wood from the forest and get it to chemically purified and make a plaster, and the paper is made. So no raw material you can manufacture. Raw material has to be taken from God’s stock. Now, if the raw material is taken from God’s stock, then how the paper becomes yours? This is God consciousness.

Everything we’ll find that nothing is our. We simply… The economists also say that we cannot manufacture anything; we can simply transform from one form to another. That’s all. We can give our labor only. And that labor also, given the strength… Full Lecture