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Prayers by the Demigods
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Devotees, therefore, following in the footsteps of Lord Brahmā, pray,  govindam ādi-puruṣam tam aham bhajāmi , worshiping the  ādi-puruṣa , the supreme truth, Govinda. Everything, everywhere, is performed in terms of three principles,  jñāna-bala-kriyā —knowledge, strength and activity. In every field, if there is not full knowledge, full strength and full activity, an endeavor is never successful. Therefore, if one wants success in everything, one must be backed by these three principles. In the  Vedas  ( Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad  6.8) there is this statement about the Supreme Personality of Godhead:
na tasya kāryam karaṇam ca vidyate 
    na tat samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate 
    parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate 
    svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca
The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not need to do anything personally, for He has such potencies that anything He wants done will be done perfectly well through the control of material nature ( svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca ). Similarly, those who are engaged in the service of the Lord are not meant to struggle for existence. The devotees who are fully engaged in spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, more than ten thousand men and women all over the world, have no steady or permanent occupation, yet we actually see that they are maintained very opulently. The Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.22):
ananyāś cintayanto mām 
    ye janāḥ paryupāsate 
    teṣām nityābhiyuktānām 
    yoga-kṣemam vahāmy aham
“For those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, I carry to them what they lack and preserve what they have.” The devotees have no anxiety over what will happen next, where they will stay or what they will eat, for everything is maintained and supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has promised,  kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati : “O son of Kuntī,