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Prabhupada, Los Angeles, June 7, 1972: […] This is the secret. People are trying to bring in peace and prosperity in the world by so many activities—philanthropism, altruism, nationalism, socialism. And so-called religion also, they are trying to bring in. The whole idea is the human society should remain in peace and prosperity.
And the vivid example is the United Nations in your country. America invited all nations that, “Let us form a community of United Nations”, but the America herself is fighting. You see? Because the idea was there to unite, but they do not know the basic principle, how to unite. That is the defect.
There is a church in the United Nations, and we tried to get a room there for making our propaganda. The church unity denied to give us. So their crippled mind is not expanded. Sa mahatma… Mahatma means broad-minded. Su-durlabhah. So mahatma, unless one becomes nonenvious, mahatma, there is no question of so-called unity or fraternity.
These are all false propaganda. It is not possible. But they will stick to that proposition, that “We have got this…” For the last twenty years… Why twenty years? More than twenty years. When this United Nations was started?
Visnujana: Even… Right after World War One they began.
Prabhupada: Yes. Sometime 1948, ’47. Hm? Or earlier. Anyway, it is more than twenty-five, twenty years. But what they have done? The people are still fighting. So here is the…, that we have to dovetail our service, we have to make Krishna center.
The Communists also, they tried to make by making the state as center. So that is also failure. Or the United Nations also. I do not know what is their center. Their center is politics, that’s all.
So in this way there cannot be complete harmony. Complete harmony will be possible only when you bring in Krishna. That will be explained in the next verse. Isavasyam idam sarvam:
Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong. (ISO mantra 1)
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