Prabhupada; February 21, 1975, Caracas: You cannot produce petrol. Just like gold is already there, manufactured by God. You can make only different types of ornaments, that’s all. Everything. This metal covering of this body, you have not produced this metal. They are like the carpenter. The carpenter has not produced the wood nor the metal instrument nor himself, but he is working. This body is also not produced by him. That is also made by Krsna. His intelligence is also made by Krsna. Krsna is giving the body. Krsna is giving the intelligence. Krsna is giving the wood. Krsna is giving the instrument. Now, if you produce some furniture, to whom it will belong? To the carpenter or to the supplier of everything? Who will enjoy it? Who will enjoy it? If the carpenter claims that “I have done it,” that is foolishness. You have done it as a worker, and you have been supplied with everything, your intelligence, your food, your instrument, your ingredient. Therefore the supplier should be the proprietor, not the carpenter. That is real philosophy.
Hrdayananda: That’s practically the law everywhere.
Prabhupada: Everywhere.
Hrdayananda: Carpenter comes and he pays him.
Prabhupada: And he is given payment. He is given food, shelter, everything, to work for Krsna. Now Krsna, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam [Bg. 5.29] Whatever activities are going on there, the enjoyer is Krsna, nobody else.
Hrdayananda: So that’s like a new light that you have given. I noticed in your lectures that you were always saying that these things were art. It took a while for me to understand it.
Prabhupada: Yes. Nothing belongs to you. Why should you claim it is yours? They are claiming North America “ours,” South America “ours.” So how it became yours? It was already there, and you came as a immigrant, and it becomes yours? [break] Karmis, they are claiming, “It is our property.” And the jnanis, they are living that “This is mithya,” and give it up. Both of them in the wrong. It is created by somebody, how you can say mithya, false? Mayavadi says, brahma satyam jagan mithya: “The whole cosmic manifestation is false.” How it is false? And karmis, they are claiming unnecessarily, “It is mine.” Creator is different person, and he is claiming, “mine”. That is also false.
Hrdayananda: So they are both envious of Krsna.
Prabhupada: They do not know Krsna. Foolish. (end)
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