Reaching Life’s Perfection 275

Krsna this misunderstanding will be cleansed. Cleansing of the heart
means that one will understand that he does not belong to this material
world. Aham brahmdsmi:\ am spirit soul. As long as one identifies oneself
with England, with India, or with America, this is ignorance. Today you
are an Englishman because you were born in England, but in your next
life you may not take your birth in England; it may be in China or Russia
or some other country. Or you may not get this human form of body.
Today you are a nationalist, you are a very great follower of your country,
but tomorrow if you stay in your country you may be a cow being taken to
the slaughterhouse.

So we have to thoroughly know our identity. Caitanya Mahdaprabhu
says that the actual identity of every living creature is that he is the eter-
nal servant of God. If one thinks like that—‘‘I am no one else’s servant;
my business is to serve God’’—then he is liberated. His heart is im-
mediately cleansed, and he is liberated. And after one has reached that,
then all one’s cares and anxieties in this world are over because one
knows, ‘‘I am a servant of God. God will give me protection. Why should
I worry about anything?’’ It is just like a child. A child knows that his
mother and father will take care of him. He is free. If he should go to
touch fire, his mother will take care of him: ‘‘Oh, my dear child, don’t
touch.’’ The mother is always looking after him. So why don’t you put
your trust in God? Actually, you are under the protection of God.

People go to church and say, ‘‘God, give us our daily bread.”’ Actually,
if He did not give it to us, we would not be able to live. That is a fact. The
Vedas also say that the one Supreme Personality supplies all the
necessities of every other living creature. God is supplying food for
everyone. We human beings have our economic problem, but what
economic problem is there in societies other than human society? The
bird society has no economic problem. The beasts have no economic
problem. There are 8,400,000 species of life, and out of that, human
society is very, very small. So they have created problems—what to eat,
where to sleep, how to mate, how to defend. These are a problem to us,
but the majority of creatures—the aquatics, the fish, the plants, the in-
sects, the birds, the beasts, and the many millions upon millions of other
living creatures—do not have such a problem. They are also living crea-
tures. Don’t think that they are different from us. It is not true that we
human beings are the only living creatures and that all others are dead.
No. And who is providing their food and shelter? It is God. The plants
and animals are not going to the office. They are not going to the univer-
sity to get technological education to earn money. So how are they
