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is to steal. On the other hand, the tydgis, those who are unable to steal,
have a ‘‘sour grapes”’ philosophy: ‘‘Oh, these things are useless. There is
no need of them.’’ Mostly, of course, people are bhogis; that is, they are
trying to use everything to enjoy sense gratification. But still there are
those who are baffled in sense gratification and who therefore say, ‘‘No,
no, we don’t need these things.”

Continuing the example, however, when a hundred-dollar note is
found, the person who acts most properly is the one who takes it and
says, ‘‘Someone has lost this note. Let me find its owner.’” Upon return-
ing that note, one renders real service. One who takes the note for him-
self and one who leaves the note where it is are both useless. Similarly,
the bhogi and tyagi are both useless. But the bhakta, the devotee, knows
that everything belongs to Krsna and should therefore be offered to
Krsna. This is real service.

Everything belongs to Krsna. What is the body? It is a combination of
material elements—earth, water, fire, air, and the subtle, psychological
elements mind, intelligence, and false ego. Krsna claims, ‘‘All these
eight elements are My separated energy.’ Then how are the body and
mind ours? Although I claim that the body is mine, I do not even know
how it is working. A tenant in an apartment may pay rent and somehow
or other occupy the apartment and enjoy its utilities, although he may not
actually know how the heat and tap water are working. Similarly, al-
though we do not know the details of how the body works, we are using
this body, which actually belongs not to us but to Krsna. This is the real
fact. The body consists of the senses and the mind, and therefore the
senses and mind also belong to Krsna.

I am a Spiritual soul, but I have been given the opportunity to utilize a
certain type of material body. Because I wanted it, Krsna is so kind that
He has given it to me. Ye yathad mdm prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy
aham. If one wants the body of a king, Krsna will give it; if one follows
the prescribed method, one will get the body of a king. And if one wants
the body of a hog so that one may eat stool, Krsna will give one that kind
of body also. But now, in the human form of life, one should understand,
‘‘Everything belongs to Krsna, so why am I hankering to satisfy this body
which is supposedly mine? Rather, now that I have this body, let me
serve Krsna.”’ This is intelligence, and this is bhakti.

Hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate: bhakti means to use hrsika,
the senses, in the service of HrsikeSa, Krsna, the master of the senses
(tvaya hrsikesena hrdi sthitasya yatha karomi). Because I wanted some
sense gratification, forgetting that everything actually belongs to Krsna, I
