How to formulate that peace formula

Now, people are planning for peace in the world, but they do not know how to formulate that peace formula. You know. The United Nations are trying for the last twenty years or more than that for peace, but there is no peace actually in the world. The war is going on because they do not know.

The formula is in the Bhagavad-gita. The Bhagavad-gita says that bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29] “I am the proprietor of everything. Whatever you are doing, I am the ultimate beneficiary. I have to take the result.” Just like a laborer works in a factory, but who is the proprietor? The ultimate proprietor is the, the proprietor is the ultimate owner of the… So everything, whatever we do… Jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam. Now, we are thinking that “This thing I am doing, I am the proprietor of this thing.” That is a misconception. When we understand that everything, whatever we are doing, the ultimate proprietor is Krsna, that is Krsna consciousness. That is jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam.

So we can have simply… Just like in office. In office so many people are working. Hundreds of people are working. Everyone is conscious that “Whatever we are acting, whatever profit we are making, that belongs to the proprietor.” Then there is peace. As soon as the cashier thinks, “Oh, I have got so much money. I am the proprietor,” then whole trouble begins. This consciousness, Krsna consciousness… If we understand that “I am a very rich man. I have got so much bank balance. I can use it for my sense gratification,” that is kama. That is kama-raga. But if we understand that “Whatever I have got, it belongs to Krsna,” then I am liberated person. I am liberated person. This is Krsna… You, you’ll have the same money under your custody. It doesn’t matter. But as soon as you think that “I am the proprietor of this wealth,” then you are under the influence of maya. And as soon as you think that “Krsna is the proprietor of all these things,” then you are free.

So kama-sankalpa-varjitah, jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam tam ahuh panditam budhah: “One who thinks like that, one who is situated in that consciousness,” panditam budhah, “he is learned, and he is actually a man of knowledge.” This is the whole process. Tam ahuh. Tam, he is known as the pandita. Pandita means one who knows things as it is, not to take a thing wrongly. So that consciousness has to be invoked, not only individually, but also community-wise, society-wise, nation-wise, all over the world. Then there will be peace. If you want real peace.

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram suhrdam sarva-bhutanam jnatva mam santim rcchati [Bg. 5.29]

Bhagavad-gita 4.19
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
New York, August 5, 1966