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sunshine, and I am the moonshine.’ We all see the sunshine and
moonshine every day, and if we think of how it is that the sun and moon
are emanating light, we will ultimately reach God. There are so many
similar instances. If you want to be God conscious and realize God your-
self, it is not very difficult. You have simply to follow the prescribed
methods. As stated in the Bhagavad-gita [18.55], tato mam tattvato jnatva.
We must simply try to understand God in truth and try to understand His
appearance, disappearance, and functions. When we understand Him in
truth, we immediately enter the kingdom of God. After quitting this
body, the person who understands God, or Krsna, does not come back
again to accept another material body. Krsna says, mam eti: ‘‘He comes to
Me.” That is our aim.

Therefore we should not waste our time living like cats and dogs. We
should live comfortably, but at the same time we should be Krsna con-
scious, or God conscious. That will help us become happy. Without
understanding God and without becoming God conscious, there is no
possibility of peace and happiness. The way of peace and happiness is out-
lined in the Bhagavaa-gita.

If you really want to understand God, He is very easy to understand.
God is the proprietor of everything. /sdvdsyam idam sarvam. Unfor-
tunately we are thinking, ‘‘I am the proprietor.”’ In your country, for in-
stance, the British have sometimes claimed to be proprietors, and now
you are claiming to be the proprietors—so who knows what will happen
in the future? Actually no one knows who the real proprietor is. The land
is there, and it is the property of God, but we are simply thinking, ‘‘I am
the proprietor. I own this, and I own that.’’ Actually, America existed
before the Europeans came, but now the Americans are thinking, ‘‘We
are the proprietors.’’ Similarly, before them the Red Indians were think-
ing, ‘‘We are the proprietors.”’ The fact is that no man is an actual
proprietor; the proprietor is God.

isavasyam idam sarvam

yat kim ca jagatyam jagat
tena tyaktena bhuijitha

ma grdhah kasya svid dhanam

‘‘Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is con-
trolled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those
things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one
