36 Raja-vidya: The King of Knowledge
problems are automatically solved. Even the animals
are enjoying mating, sleeping, eating and defending.
The arrangements are all provided. These demands of
the body are not really problems, but we have made
them into problems. The Vedanta-sitra enjoins us
not to concern ourselves with these problems, for
they are satisfied in any form of life. Our problem
is to inquire about the source of all these manifesta-
tions. The human form of life is not meant for
struggling hard to solve the material problems which
even a hog, a stool-eater, can solve. The hog is con-
sidered to be the lowest among animals, yet he has
eating facility, mating facility, sleeping facility, and
facilities for defense. Even if we don’t strive for
these things, we will have them. Man is meant, rather,
to find out the source from which all these things
are coming. The Vedanta-siittra states that Brahman
is that from which everything is emanating (janmady
asya yatah). Philosophers, scientists, yogis, jianis
and transcendentalists are all trying to find out the
ultimate source of everything. This source is given
in Brahma-samhita, sarva-karana-karanam: Krsna is
the cause of all causes.

Understanding Krsna to be the primal source of
everything, how do the great souls act? Krsna
Himself characterizes them in this way:

satatam kirtayanto mam
yatantas ca drdha-vratah

namasyantas ca mam bhaktya
nitya-yukta upasate
