2 Raja-vidya: The King of Knowledge

bhoktaram yajiia-tapasam
sarva-loka-mahesvaram

suhrdam sarva-bhutanam
Jiatva mam santim rcechati

“The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of
all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all
planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-
wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the
pangs of material miseries.” (Bg, 5.29)

Here Krsna proclaims that He is the enjoyer of all
activities and the proprietor of all planets (sarva-
loka-mahesvaram). An individual may possess a large
tract of land, and he may be proud of his ownership,
but Krsna claims to possess all planetary systems.
Krsna also claims to be the friend of all living entities
(suhrdam sarva-bhutanam). When a person under-
stands that God is the proprietor of everything, the
friend of everyone and the enjoyer of all, he becomes
very peaceful. This is the actual peace formula. No
one can have peace as long as he thinks, “I am the
proprietor.” Who is capable of claiming proprietor-
ship? Only a few hundred years ago the red Indians
were considered to be the proprietors of America.
Today we in our turn are claiming that proprietorship,
but in four hundred or a thousand years perhaps
someone else will come to claim the same. The land
is here, and we come here and falsely claim ourselves
to be proprietors of it. This philosophy of false pro-
prietorship is not in line with Vedic injunctions, Srt
Igopanisad states that ‘everything animate or inani-
mate that is within the universe is controlled and
owned by the Lord (isavasyam idam sarvam).” The
