That Is God’s Creation

Young man: All the religions that have been taught to me have not given me a clear view of God, a clear concept. They didn’t seem to know it themself.

Prabhupada: No, concept is there as you told me: “The God has made human being after His own image.” Then we can get the idea that God is a person like a human being, He has got two hands, two legs, one head, because after His image we have been… Now, if we study ourself and increase that quality… Just like I am. I can eat. I can eat a certain amount of foodstuff, but God can also eat, but He can eat the whole universe. So eating is there. But the difference of eating is there also. I can create one airplane, but God has created very, very big airplanes like these planets, and they are floating in the sky without any power crisis. That is God’s creation. Here we are floating the airplane or running the car with the power, petrol, given by God. You cannot manufacture petrol. Just like in your country there is enough stock of petrol. But you have not created it. So who has created? Your creative power is to drill and get the stock.

So much creative power you have got. But you cannot create petrol. Then the Americans would not have come here to beg petrol. That is the difference. You can create something by the ingredients given by God. You can create this table. Because wood is given by God, the instrument is given by God, and the intelligence given by God, the hand is given by God, so in this way you create the table. Then whose property it will be, your property or God’s property? Whose property? If I give you wood, instrument, your salary, and you create something, the ultimately the thing created, to whom it should belong? To you or to me?

Young man: To you if you’re…

Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore everything belongs to God. The petrol belongs to God; the land belongs to God; we also belong to God. But because we have forgotten God, there is crisis. Therefore, if you want peace, then you must accept here this principle that everything belongs to God. That is Vedic information. Isavasyam idam sarvam. Isopanisad. You have read our Isopanisad?

Young man: I have read some of it.

Prabhupada: Here is the Isopanisad. Show him. Isavasyam idam sarvam. Read that verse.

Srutakirti:

isavasyam idam sarvam yat kinca jagatyam jagat tena tyaktena bhunjitha ma grdhah kasya svid dhanam

“Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one must not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.”

Prabhupada: Explanation.

Srutakirti:. “Purport.” [break]

Prabhupada: This is the summary of God consciousness. (Says something in Hindi)

Room Conversation
with Yoga Student
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
March 14, 1975, Iran