Text 26] Prayers by the Demigods 159

Devotees, therefore, following in the footsteps of Lord Brahma, pray,
govindam ddi-purusam tam aham bhajami, worshiping the ddi-purusa,
the supreme truth, Govinda. Everything, everywhere, is performed in
terms of three principles, jidna-bala-kriya—knowledge, strength and
activity. In every field, if there is not full knowledge, full strength and
full activity, an endeavor is never successful. Therefore, if one wants
success in everything, one must be backed by these three principles. In
the Vedas (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8) there is this statement about the
Supreme Personality of Godhead:

na tasya kéryam karanam ca vidyate
na tat samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate

parasya saktir vividhaiva Srityate
svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca

The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not need to do anything per-
sonally, for He has such potencies that anything He wants done will be
done perfectly well through the control of material nature (svabhaviki
jndna-bala-kriya ca). Similarly, those who are engaged in the service of
the Lord are not meant to struggle for existence. The devotees who are
fully engaged in spreading the Krsna consciousness movement, more
than ten thousand men and women all over the world, have no steady or

permanent occupation, yet we actually see that they are maintained very
opulently. The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (9.22):

anany4ds cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupdsate

tesam nityabhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy aham

“For those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcen-
dental form, I carry to them what they lack and preserve what they
have.” The devotees have no anxiety over what will happen next, where
they will stay or what they will eat, for everything is maintained and
supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has promised,
kaunteya pratijdnihi na me bhaktah pranasyati: “O son of Kunti,
