“Father is supplying us food. So we brothers, why should we fight?”

video: RALPH LAURINO
Prabhupda, Los Angeles, April 18, 1973 — So every living entity is a child of God. God is the Supreme Father. Krishna says: aham bija-pradah pita. “I am the seed-giving father of all living entities.” Sarva-yonisu kaunteya [Bg. 14.4].

“In whichever form they may live, they’re all living entities, they’re My sons.” Actually that is the fact. We all living entities, we are sons of God. But we have forgotten. Therefore we are fighting.

Just like in a nice family, if anyone knows: “Father is supplying us food. So we brothers, why should we fight?” Similarly if we become God conscious, if we become Krishna conscious, this fighting will be over. “I am American, I am Indian, I am Russian, I am Chinese.”

These all nonsense things will be over. Krishna consciousness movement is so nice. As soon as people become Krishna conscious, this fighting, this political fighting, national fighting, will be over immediately.

Because they’ll come to real consciousness that everything belongs to God. And as the children, a child of the family has got right to take advantages from the father, similarly if everyone is part and parcel of God, if everyone is child of God, then everyone has got the right to use the property of the father.

So that right is not that right, the right belongs to the human being. According to Bhagavad-gita, this right belongs to all living entities. Never mind whether he’s living being or animal or trees, or birds or beast or insect.

That is Krishna consciousness. We do not think in terms of that simply my brother is good, I am good. And all bad. This kind of narrow, crippled consciousness we hate, we kick out. We think: panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18]. In the Bhagavad-gita you’ll find.

vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmane gavi hastini suni caiva sva-pake ca panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18]

One who is pandita, One who is learned, he sees every living entity on the equal footing. Therefore a Vaisnava is so compassionate. Lokanam hita-karinau.

They can actually do the beneficial work to the human being. They are seeing, actually feeling that all these living entities, they are part and parcel of God. Full Lecture