Raja-vidya: The King of Knowledge 3

truth of this statement is factual, but under illusion
we are thinking that we are the proprietors, In
actuality God owns everything, and therefore He is
called the richest.

Of course there are many men who claim to be
God. In India, for instance, at any time, one has no
difficulty in finding at least one dozen people claim-
ing to be God. But if you ask them if they are the
proprietor of everything, they find this difficult
to answer. This is a criterion by which we can
understand who God is. God is the proprietor
of everything, and, being so, He must be more
powerful than anyone or anything else. When
Krsna was personally present on this earth, no one
could conquer Him. There is no record of His ever
having lost a battle. He belonged to a ksatriya (war-
rior) family, and the ksatriyas are meant to give
protection to the weak. As far as His opulence is
concerned, He married 16,108 wives. Every wife had
her own separate palace, and Krsna expanded Him-
self 16,108 times in order to enjoy them all. This may
scem difficult lo believe, but it is stated in Srimad-
Bhagavatam, and the great sages of India recognize
this as scripture and recognize Krsna as God.

In the first verse of this Ninth Chapter, by the
word guhyatamam, Sti Krsna intimates that He is
imparting the most confidential knowledge to Arjuna.
Why is He proclaiming this to Arjuna? It is because
Arjuna is anasuyu—non-envious. In the material world
if someone is greater than us, we are envious.
We are not only envious of one another, but of God.
Also when Krsna says, “I am the proprietor,” we
disbelieve it. But this is not the case with Arjuna,
