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<div id="LectureonBG43438NewYorkAugust171966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="197" link="Lecture on BG 4.34-38 -- New York, August 17, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.34-38 -- New York, August 17, 1966">
<div class="heading">People at the modern age, they are lacking this knowledge. So we require hundreds and thousands of spiritual masters who has understood this Kṛṣṇa science and preach all over the world.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.34-38 -- New York, August 17, 1966|Lecture on BG 4.34-38 -- New York, August 17, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
We cannot create anything. Even in the economic laws, we cannot create anything. We can simply transform, just like worker or laborer. That's all. Suppose we manufacture a very nice table, but the ingredients, the wood, and the instrument, iron, oh, this is supplied by God. You cannot manufacture iron. You cannot manufacture the wood. So how . . . why do you claim that it is yours? This is ignorance. This is ignorance.

So by culture of Kṛṣṇa science, when we understand the Kṛṣṇa science, then we become free from this ignorance. And Lord Kṛṣṇa recommends that: "By this knowledge, you can very easily cross over the ocean of nescience, ocean of ignorance." The whole thing, we are suffering due to . . . just like ignorance is no excuse in the law court. Suppose you have done something wrong, and if you say to the judge, "So I, I did not know, sir, this law," oh, that is no excuse. You'll be punished. You'll be punished.

Now, in the ''śāstra'', in the Vedic literature, it is said that "Everything belongs to God. Everything is manufactured by God. So everyone has right—not only human being; even the animals—everyone has got the right to live and use things as much as he requires. But if he stocks more, if he acquires more, he becomes the thief, and he is punishable." Now, suppose if I say: "Oh, I do not know this law. Therefore I have accumulated so much things in my control," oh, that does not mean that you'll not be punished. You'll be punished. You'll be punishable. This knowledge we require to know. And people at the modern age, they are lacking this knowledge.

So we require hundreds and thousands of spiritual master who has understood this Kṛṣṇa science and preach all over the world. That is the problem. Therefore we have formed this Society and we, we invite all sincere souls to take part in the Society and become a spiritual master, and preach this science all over the world. This is the . . . there is a great necessity of this knowledge.

Don't think that Kṛṣṇa was born in India, and because He spoke on the Vedic principle, there is a sectarian thing. No. Kṛṣṇa says that:

:''sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya''
:''sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ''
:''tāsāṁ mahad yonir''
:''ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā''
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.4 (1972)|BG 14.4]])

Just like children, they are born after the conjugation of the father and the mother, similarly, the father is God; the material world is the mother. We have got this body just like the child gets his body from the mother's womb. The father is the seed-giver. Similarly, as spiritual soul, we are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, but we are put into this material world because we wanted to enjoy this material world. Therefore we are put into this material world. And we have got this body, this material body.

So in whatever form we may be, either as human being or as a cat and dog or more than human being, demigod . . . so whatever forms there are, many thousands . . . eighty, eighty lakhs. Eighty-four lakhs, species. Oh. Eight hundred millions of species of life there are. But all of them claimed by Kṛṣṇa that: "I am their father. I am their father," ''ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ''. ''Ahaṁ'' means "I"; ''bīja-pradaḥ'', "because I am the seed-giving father."

So ''Bhagavad-gītā'', the science of Kṛṣṇa, is not meant for any particular party or particular nation or particular country. It is all meant for everyone, even for the animals. We have to learn this science and preach this science all over the world, so that they can be out of the ignorance. They are committing theft. They are committing theft. So we have to save them from the ignorance, from their state of ignorance. This is required.

So we have formed this association, Internal Association for . . . of, for Kṛṣṇa, International Society for Krishna Consciousness. And I invite every one of you, not only in America, from all parts of the world, come and join and learn this Kṛṣṇa science, and preach all over the world that people will be happy. It is the business of the human being not to exploit each other. The human being is meant for doing good to others.

Lord Caitanya preached this philosophy. Especially He advised to the Indians:

:''bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra''
:''janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra''
:([[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]])

He said that "Anyone who has taken birth in the land of India . . . because India is the land of religion. India is the land of philosophy. India has got many . . . good many asset of this science of Kṛṣṇa and science of spiritual knowledge. So anyone who has taken his birth in India, they can fulfill the mission of human life. They have got very good asset. But unfortunately, they have rejected all this asset. They are now enamored by the glamour of material civilization. They are looking to Europe and America, and they want this skyscraper building and industry. And in that way they want to be happy now.</p>
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