So our, this Krsna consciousness movement is only to remind people that "Please do not waste your time, valuable time, life. Utilize it. This is the opportunity to make a solution of all the problems of life." There is means, there are ways, how to do it. That we are describing. Yesterday we discussed tapasa, by austerity; brahmacaryena, by celibacy; samena, by controlling the mind; damena, by controlling the senses; tyagena, by giving in charity your money. That is called tyaga. Suppose you have got millions of dollars. Don't keep it. So long it is within your jurisdiction, spend it for Krsna. Yes. That is the proper utilization. Because actually the money is not yours, because you cannot carry this money with your death. As soon as you quit this body, or death, so your money and everything, what you collected with this body, with the finishing of this body, everything is finished. But you go. You are spirit soul. You transmigrate to another body. So your money which you earned previously, in your previous body, that you do not know where it is kept, or how it is being spent up. During your lifetime, you may make very nice deed, how the money should be spent by your sons or by your heirs, but now, suppose you left in your last life ten thousand millions of dollars somewhere, but you have nothing, no claim for that money. Therefore so long it is in your hand, spend it. Tyagena, tyagena. Spend for good purpose, not for... This money, if you spend for bad purposes, then you become entangled. If you spend for good purposes, then you get good return. That's a fact.
These things are very nicely, clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gita. This dhana, charity -- the Bhagavad-gita says there are three kinds of charities. One charity is in the mode of goodness, one charity is in the mode of passion, and one charity is in the mode of ignorance. So mode of goodness charity means you should know where charity is to be given. Datavyam: here charity is to be given. So where charity is given? First-class charity, in goodness? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Krsna says, yad karosi yad asnasi yat tapasyasi dadasi yat, tat kurusva mad-arpanam: (BG 9.27) "Whatever you are eating, whatever you are undergoing, austerity, whatever you are doing, whatever you are giving in charity, give it to Me." Krsna's not in want of money, because He's the original proprietor of everything, isavasyam idam sarvam (Iso mantra 1). But still He's asking from you money. Just like Krsna went to beg something from Bali Maharaja in the shape of a Vamana, a dwarf brahmana. So He is the sarva-loka-mahesvaram (BG 5.29). He's the proprietor of all the planets. And still He's saying that dadasi yat kurusva mad-arpanam: "Whatever you are giving in charity, please give it to Me." Why? It is for your interest, because the sooner you return Krsna's money to Krsna, you are better situated. In, in, of course, it will not be very palatable to hear, but actually we are all thieves. We have stolen God's property. That is material life. Anyone who has got anything without sense of God, it is to be understood that he has stolen the property. If you very cool-headed think over this matter, that you are... If we do not understand God, if we do not understand whose property we are using, and if you come to the real knowledge: without Krsna consciousness, whatever we possess, that is stolen property, stolen property... Stena eva sah ucyate (BG 3.12). It is clearly said in the Bhagavad-gita. If one does not expend his money for yajna, then he is to be understood... Just like there is many, many instances... Just like you have earned so much money. If you hide income tax, then you are criminal. You can say, "I have earned money. Why shall I pay income tax, government?" No. You must pay. And there is a limit, that if you have earned so much money, practically the whole money will be taken as income tax, super tax. So as everything you earn, it is the property of the government, similarly, why not everything, whatever you got, it is Krsna's or God's? Is it very difficult to understand? Actually it is so. Suppose you have constructed a very nice building. So the building requires so many stone, wood, earth. Wherefrom you have got it? You have not produced the wood. It is God's property. You have not produced the metal; you have taken it from the mine. That is God's property. The earth, also, the bricks also, which you have made you have simply given your labor. That labor is also God's property, because you work with your hand, but it is not your hand; it is God's hand. If it is your hand, then when it is paralyzed, you cannot use it. When the power of using your energy of the hand is withdrawn by God, you cannot work.
So these are the things to be studied in Krsna consciousness. Don't be frivolous. Don't waste your time. This is the greatest opportunity, human form of life. We have to understand all these things. They are mentioned in the authoritative books, Vedic knowledge.