If you take . . . if you are cooking rice, you take one grain of rice and you press it, if you think that, "It is now soft," then the whole rice is cooked. The sample. There is a bag of rice. You take a few grains, sample. You can understand what is the quality of the whole bag. Similarly, what is God, that is not very difficult to understand. Simply you have to study yourself. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). But not that . . . that you are God. You are sample of God.
Now, we being very intimately connected, because we are all sons of God . . . Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya
- mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ
- tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma
- ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā
- (BG 14.4)
Kṛṣṇa says aham, "I," "I." "I am the seed-giving father." Not only human society, but there are other societies—animal society, bird society, beast society, vegetable society, insect society, aquatic society—they are also Kṛṣṇa's son, God's sons. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says: "One who is actually devotee and wants to be very dear to Me, his qualification must be adveṣṭā sarva-bhūtānām: he must be nonenvious to all living entities."
Nowadays a fashion has become, daridra-nārāyaṇa-sevā. This is nonsense. What is the daridra-nārāyaṇa-sevā? Why you are taking care of the daridras? If you have got such vision, such outlook, that in everyone's heart . . . that is a fact. Everyone's heart there is Nārāyaṇa. There is no denial. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61): "Īśvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is situated in everyone's heart." If you have got such vision—you are seeing in everyone the Supreme Nārāyaṇa—then why should you designate only the daridras? Others also. You should see dog-nārāyaṇa. You should see kuttā-nārāyaṇa. Why daridra-nārāyaṇa? If you have got such broad vision, why you are taking particular? No. That is imperfect vision. You cannot send the chāga-nārāyaṇa, goat-nārāyaṇa, to the slaughterhouse and allow the daridra-nārāyaṇa to eat the meat. This is not bhakta's business. This is demonic.
Bhakta's business is . . . here it is clearly stated, adveṣṭā sarva-bhūtānām. You should be equally kind to everyone, to the daridras, to the dhanīs also. Here everyone is daridra because everyone is lacking knowledge. So nobody is rich. Here the so-called rich is also daridra, because he has no knowledge. And the so-called daridra is also daridra. Because everyone's knowledge is the bodily concept of life, "I am this body." But Kṛṣṇa does not say that, "A particular body is very dear to Me." He says, sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya (BG 14.4): "All species of life, they are all sons." They are simply in different dress. We are sitting here, so many people in different dress. That does not mean that one who is in black dress or dirty dress, he is not a human being. He is also human being. Or one who is dressed very nicely, he is also human being. That is paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ (BG 5.18).