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misconception. We must come to understand that Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate proprietor of the fruits of all our works. Hundreds of people may be working in an office, but they understand that whatever profit the business makes belongs to the proprietor. As soon as a teller at the bank thinks, “Oh, I have so much money. I am the proprietor. Let me take it home with me,” his trouble begins. If we think that we can use whatever wealth we have amassed for our own sense gratification, we are acting out of  kāma , lust. But if we come to understand that everything we have belongs to Kṛṣṇa, we are liberated. We may have the same money in our hands, but as soon as we think that we are the proprietor, we are under the influence of  māyā . One who is situated in the consciousness that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa is an actual learned man.
īśāvāsyam idam sarvam 
    yat kiñca jagatyām jagat 
    tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā 
    mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam
“Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one must not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.” (Śrī  Īśopaniṣad ,  Mantra  1)
This consciousness of  īśāvāsya —everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa—must be revived, not only individually but nationally and universally. Then there will be peace. We often tend to be philanthropic and altruistic, and