Worshiping Govardhana Hill 169

There must be the sanction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nanda
Maharaja therefore advocated that, in order to get good results for agricul-
tural activities, they must satisfy Indra, the superintending deity of the
rain supply. Lord Krsna nullified this argument, saying that the demigods
sive results only to persons who have executed their prescribed duties.
The demigods cannot give any good results to the person who has not
executed the prescribed duties; therefore demigods are dependent on the
execution of duties and are not absolute in awarding good results to any-
one.

“My dear father, there is no need to worship the demigod Indra,” Lord
Krsna said. “Everyone has to achieve the result of his own work. We can
actually see that one becomes busy according to the natural tendency of
his work; and according to that natural tendency, all living entities—either
human beings or demigods—achieve their respective results. All living
entities achieve higher or lower bodies and create enemies, friends or
neutral parties only because of their different kinds of work. One should
be careful to discharge duties according to his natural instinct and not
divert attention to the worship of various demigods. The demigods will be
satisfied by proper execution of all duties, so there is no need to worship
them. Let us, rather, perform our prescribed duties very nicely. Actually
one cannot be happy without executing his proper prescribed duty. One
who does not, therefore, properly discharge his prescribed duties, is com-
pared with an unchaste woman. The proper prescribed duty of the
brahmanas is the study of the Vedas; the proper duty of the royal order,
the ksatriyas, is engagement in protecting the citizens; the proper duty of
the vais ya community is agriculture, trade and protection of the cows; and
the proper duty of the siidras is service to the higher classes, namely the
brahmanas, ksatriyas, and vaisyas. We belong to the vaisya community,
and our proper duty is to farm, or to trade with the agricultural produce,
to protect cows, or take to banking.”

Krsna identified Himself with the vaisya community because Nanda
Maharaja was protecting many cows, and Krsna was taking care of them.
He enumerated four kinds of business engagements for the vaisya com-
munity, namely agriculture, trade, protection of cows and banking. Al-
though the vaisyas can take to any of these occupations, the men of
Vrndavana were engaged primarily in the protection of cows.

Krsna further explained to His father: “This cosmic manifestation is
going on under the influence of three modes ef material nature—goodness,
passion, and ignorance. These three modes are the causes of creation,
maintenance, and destruction. The cloud is caused by the action of the
