This is the real understanding. Everything belongs to God - isavasyam idam sarvam - everything, and tena tyaktena bhunjitha, whatever He gives you as prasadam

Expressions researched:
"This is real understanding. Everything belongs to God—īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam—everything, and tena tyaktena bhuñjithā, whatever He gives you as prasādam"

Lectures

Festival Lectures

This is real understanding. Everything belongs to God—īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam—everything, and tena tyaktena bhuñjithā, whatever He gives you as prasādam . . . just like our principle is that we are working for Kṛṣṇa. This is real philosophy. Every one of us, one who is offering ārati, he is also working for Kṛṣṇa, and one who is building this construction, temple, he is also working for Kṛṣṇa. So as worker for Kṛṣṇa there is no distinction. Variety. Variety of service. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means variety of service to the Supreme. The example is just like the varieties of different parts of the body, the head is there, the hand is there, the brain is there, the leg is there. The head cannot work like the leg, neither the leg can work like the brain. The hand cannot work like the belly, or belly cannot work like the hand. Varieties. Similarly, there are varieties of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and if we serve Kṛṣṇa with our varieties, sva karmaṇā tam abhyarcya (BG 18.46), then it is everything peaceful. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

751222 - Lecture Festival BG 16.07 Disappearance Day, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati - Bombay

We should understand that everything belonging to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nothing is manufactured by us. So He is the proprietor, but because we are His sons, we have got the legal right to enjoy the property of the father. That is all right, this is real Communism. This is actual understanding of Communism—everything belongs to God. Just like the Communists, they are thinking everything belongs to the state, and the citizens must work and enjoy. So our philosophy is the same. Only difference is that they are, what is called, ignorantly accepting the state is the proprietor. No. If they accept God is the proprietor, Kṛṣṇa is proprietor, then Communism is very perfect. That is missing. That is missing. Actually, God is the proprietor. What is the state? That is artificial. This state, American state or African state, Russian state, these are artificial. Actually the land belongs to God. We are demark—this is India, this is Russia, this is America. That is the beginning of spiritual education, to understand this fact:

īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ

yat kiñcid jagatyāṁ jagat

tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā

mā gṛdha kasyasvid dhanam

(ISO 1)

This is real understanding. Everything belongs to God—īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam—everything, and tena tyaktena bhuñjithā, whatever He gives you as prasādam . . . just like our principle is that we are working for Kṛṣṇa. This is real philosophy. Every one of us, one who is offering ārati, he is also working for Kṛṣṇa, and one who is building this construction, temple, he is also working for Kṛṣṇa. So as worker for Kṛṣṇa there is no distinction. Variety. Variety of service.

So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means variety of service to the Supreme. The example is just like the varieties of different parts of the body, the head is there, the hand is there, the brain is there, the leg is there. The head cannot work like the leg, neither the leg can work like the brain. The hand cannot work like the belly, or belly cannot work like the hand. Varieties. Similarly, there are varieties of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and if we serve Kṛṣṇa with our varieties, sva karmaṇā tam abhyarcya (BG 18.46), then it is everything peaceful. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.