Text 5] Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvaraka 517

Therefore, in contrast with the modern advanced civilized form of
government, an autocracy like Maharaja Yudhisthira’s is by far superior
to so-called democracy in which animals are killed and a man less than an
animal is allowed to cast votes for another less-than-animal man.

We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said
that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the
mother of all living beings in all shapes. Thus mother material nature has
enough foodstuff both for animals and men, by the grace of the Father
Almighty Sri Krsna. The human being is the elder brother of all other living
beings. He is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for
realizing the course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father.
Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature
without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world
into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial
luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.

’ TEXT 5
aa: aaa fia: aracateties: |
TTT: Tat: a
Hoare: Fal? HARI Ta 7 Il & Il
nadyah samudra girayah
savanaspati-virudhah
phalanty osadhayah sarvah
kamam anurtu tasya vai

nadyah—rivers; samudrah—oceans; girayah—hills and mountains:
savanaspati—vegetables; virudhah—creepers; phalanti—active; osadhayah—
drugs; sarvah—all; kamam—necessities; anvrtu—seasonal; tasya—for the
King; vai—certainly.

TRANSLATION
The rivers, oceans, hills, mountains, forests, creepers and active drugs,
in every season, paid their tax quota to the King in profusion.
PURPORT

Since Maharaja Yudhisthira was under the protection of the ajita, the

infallible Lord, as above mentioned, the property of the Lord, namely the
