The Peace Formula

“The earth is the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-
called civilized human beings, are claiming God’s property as our own, under
both an individual and collective false conception. If you want peace, you have
to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world....”

The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others’
property as though it were one’s own and to thereby create an unneces-
sary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No liv-
ing entity can violate them. Only one who is Krsna conscious can easily
overcome the stringency of the laws of nature and thus become happy
and peaceful in the world.

As a State is protected by the department of law and order, so the state
of Universe, of which this earth is only an insignificant fragment, is pro-
tected by the laws of nature. This material nature is one of the different
potencies of God, who is the ultimate proprietor of everything that be.
This earth is, therefore, the property of God, but we, the living entities,
especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God’s prop-
erty as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception.
If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your
mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the
human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of
peace on earth.

Foolish and so-called civilized men are claiming proprietary rights on
the property of God because they have now become godless. You cannot
be happy and peaceful in a godless society. In the Bhagavad-gita Lord
Krsna says that He is the factual enjoyer of all activities of the living en-
tities, that He is the Supreme Lord of all universes, and that He is the
well-wishing friend of all beings. When the people of the world know this
as the formula for peace, it is then and there that peace will prevail.

Therefore, if you want peace at all, you will have to change your con-

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