16 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI
‘*The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is
completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal
world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced
of the complete whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the com-
plete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him,
He remains the complete balance.” (/sopanisad, Invocation) Krsna’s
stock is never exhausted. We must simply become obedient to Him, and
the supply will be there. Therefore a Krsna conscious person has no
economic problem; everything is sufficiently supplied by Krsna. In Los
Angeles the neighbors of our temple are sometimes very envious. ‘‘You
do not work,”’ they say to our Krsna conscious devotees. ‘‘You have no
anxiety. You have four cars. You are eating so nicely. How is that?’’ Ac-
tually, they are right. Somehow or other we are getting everything we
need, and we have no problems, for if one simply becomes a sincere ser-
vant of Krsna, everything is provided. They are envious of us because we
do not work but still we have so much. But why don’t they come join us?
That they will not do. ‘‘Come with us,’’ we say. ‘‘Chant Hare Krsna.”’
‘‘No, no, no. That I cannot do.”’ ‘‘All right. Then work with your
trucks.’’ By zooming around in their cars and trucks, they have made
their own lives dangerous, and they have created danger for others also.
At any moment there may be an accident. But they say that this is
civilization. Nonsense. This is not civilization. Civilization means calm-
ness, prosperity, and sdnti, peace. In peace and prosperity one should be
Krsna conscious always.

People work so hard, day and night, simply for a little food, not know-
ing that their food has already been provided. Avidya karma-samjndanya
trtiya Saktir isyate (Visnu Purdna 6.7.61). This material world is full of ig-
norance (avidyd). Therefore our endeavor should be to become free from
this ignorance. It is only for this reason that we should work—to come
out of ignorance. We are thinking, ‘‘I am this material body. I have to
work day and night, and then I shall get my food, and I shall live.’’ This is
ignorance. We have lived this life of ignorance in forms other than that of
a human being. We have lived in bird life, in beast life, and so on, but
now, in this life, we should be peaceful, calm, and quiet, and should
simply inquire about the Absolute Truth (jivasya tattva-jijfidsd, athdto
brahma-jijfidsa). That should be one’s occupation.

We are simply sitting down and inquiring about Krsna, and this is what
one should do. This is life. Why should one work day and night like an
ass? What kind of life is this? No. This is not life. Therefore the
Bhdgavatam says to one who is intelligent (kovida) , ‘‘Your life should be
