How It Is Your Property? Everything Belong To God

[Gavin Swinden]

(How it is your property? So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness: if we understand factually that anything which you are using in this world, everything belongs to God)

 

"You European, Columbus came to America, but it was not his property, neither his father's property. It was God's property. So you have come here. You have occupied it. That's all right. But you cannot claim that it is your property. No land anywhere, either America, anywhere. But unfortunately, we are claiming, "This is my property," "This is our property. Why you should come here?"

 

How it is your property? So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness: if we understand factually that anything which you are using in this world, everything belongs to God. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ. . . This is the Vedic philosophy. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1). Sarvam, everything. Everything belongs to God. This is real philosophy."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, February 26, 1975, Miami)