Actually it is not your land; it is God's land. The land was there before you came here, and still there. And maybe after some hundred years or so you may vacate, and somebody may come. This is going on. Actually the land is there. It belongs to God, and we are claiming, "This is my land," "This is my land," and therefore there is struggle, there is war, there are animosity and so on.
But if people accept this philosophy that all land on the surface of the globe belongs to God, Kṛṣṇa, then whole problem is immediately solved. Is it not? If I . . . just like I am sitting here. I am sitting here in this hall of the university. I am speaking. There is no trouble. But if I claim, "Now I have sat down in this room for two hours or one hour, now it has become my property," then there is trouble. I came as outsider, and I remained here for one hour, and how can I claim this is my property? Similarly, we are coming. Of course, we do not know the . . . there is no such education from where you are coming or after death where you are going. But we can know all these things from Vedic literature.
So I come here, I or you, fo . . . and stay here—instead of few hours, you may stay here for few years—then how this land becomes yours? This is called māyā. Actually this land does not belong to anyone; it is the property of God. Now this vast ocean, we are . . . have we created the vast ocean? The big, big lump of matter? These fish? Have we created? Who has created? If anyone has created, then He is the proprietor. How I claim that I am the proprietor?
So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to propagate this sense, this consciousness, that "Everything belongs to God." Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1). This is Vedic injunction, Īśopaniṣad. We have got . . . we have published our book, Īśopaniṣad. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam: everything belongs to God, and every one of us, we are children of God. We have got right that . . . you will find in the animal kingdom, they are actually following. If you throw a bag of rice or wheat on the street, so many birds will come, and they will eat. But as soon as their belly is fulfilled, two grains or five grains, they go away. They won't take the grains for stocking for tomorrow or speculating for business. They will never do. But we human being, because we are civilized, as soon as we see there is enough grain, "Oh, let us take home, stock it. Tomorrow we shall sell and speculate, make some profit." This is going on.
So if you actually take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then even the . . . there is no scarcity actually. Suppose in India there is scarcity of grain, but here in America there is enough grain production. Even the government request that, "Don’t produce more." Why? If there are so many hungry men all over the world, why don’t you stock? Why you stock . . . (indistinct) . . . distribute it. Everything belongs to God, and everyone is God's children. Why one should suffer? This is another Vedic communism. According to Vedic communism, in your house if there is a lizard, if there is an insect, if there is a rat, if there is snake, you have to see that everyone has got his food. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.