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Four hundred years ago, it (America) belonged to the Indians, Red Indians, and some way or other, you have now occupied. Who can say that others will not come here and occupy? So this is all false claim

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

This claim that, "This land, America, belongs to us, United States," this is false claim. It does not belong to you, nobody else. Just like some years ago, four hundred years ago, it belonged to the Indians, Red Indians, and some way or other, you have now occupied. Who can say that others will not come here and occupy? So this is all false claim. Actually, everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says that sarva-loka-maheśvaram (BG 5.29): "I am the supreme proprietor, controller, of all planets." So everything belongs to Him.

You cannot say: "No, I shall remain here. I have got my visa or my permanent citizenship." No. This will not allow you. One day death will come, "Please exit." "No, sir, I have got so much business." "No. Damn your business. Come on." You see? But if you go to Kṛṣṇaloka, Kṛṣṇa says, yad gatvā na nivartante, you haven't got to come back again. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6).

This is also Kṛṣṇa's dhāma, because everything belongs to God, Kṛṣṇa. Nobody's proprietor. This claim that, "This land, America, belongs to us, United States," this is false claim. It does not belong to you, nobody else. Just like some years ago, four hundred years ago, it belonged to the Indians, Red Indians, and some way or other, you have now occupied. Who can say that others will not come here and occupy? So this is all false claim. Actually, everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says that sarva-loka-maheśvaram (BG 5.29): "I am the supreme proprietor, controller, of all planets." So everything belongs to Him.

But Kṛṣṇa says everything belongs to Him, so everything is His dhāma, His place, His abode. So why should we change here? But He says, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramam (BG 15.6).

Paramam means the supreme. In this dhāma also, they are Kṛṣṇa's dhāma, Kṛṣṇa's planets, but here it is not parama, the supreme. There are troubles, just like this birth, death, disease and old age. But if you return to Kṛṣṇa's personal abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana, cintāmaṇi-dhāma, then you get eternal life, blissful life, full of knowledge. And how that can be attained? Here it is, beginning . . . Kṛṣṇa says that mayy āsakta-manāḥ: simply you increase your attachment for Kṛṣṇa. Simply this method.

Page Title:Four hundred years ago, it (America) belonged to the Indians, Red Indians, and some way or other, you have now occupied. Who can say that others will not come here and occupy? So this is all false claim
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-10-17, 18:11:54.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1