GOD IS GREAT & MAN UNGRATEFUL

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People go to church and say,

" God, give us our daily bread. "

 

 

Actually, if He did not give it to

us, we would not be able to live.

 

 

That is a fact. The Vedas also say

that the one Supreme Personality

 

 

supplies all the necessities of

every other living creature. God is

 

 

supplying food for everyone. We

human beings have our economic problem,

 

 

but what economic problem is there

in societies other than human

 

 

society? The bird society has no

economic problem. The species of life,

 

 

and out of that, human society is

very, very small. So they have created

 

 

problems--what to eat, where to

sleep, how to mate, how to defend. These

 

 

are a problem to us, but the

majority of creatures--the aquatics, the

 

 

fish, the plants, the insects, the

birds, the beasts, and the many

 

 

millions upon millions of other

living creatures--do not have such a

 

 

problem. They are also living

creatures. Don't think that they are

 

 

different from us. It is not true that

we human beings are the only

 

 

living creatures and that all others

are dead. No. And who is providing

 

 

their food and shelter? It is God.

The plants and animals are not going

 

 

to the office. They are not going to

the university to get technological

 

 

education to earn money. So how are

they eating? God is supplying. The

 

 

elephant eats hundreds of pounds of

food. Who is supplying? Are you

 

 

making arrangements for the

elephant? There are millions of elephants.

 

 

Who is supplying?

 

 

So the process of acknowledging that

God is supplying is better

 

 

than thinking, " God is dead.

Why should we go to church and pray to God

 

 

for bread? " In the

Bhagavad-gita it is said, " Four kinds of people come

 

 

to Krsna: the distressed, those who

are in need of money, the wise, and

 

 

the inquisitive. " One who is

inquisitive, one who is wise, one who is

 

 

distressed, and one who is in need

of money--these four classes of men

 

 

approach God. " My dear God, I

am very hungry. Give me my daily bread. "

 

 

That's nice. Those who approach God

in this way are recommended as

 

 

sukrtinah. Sukrti means

" pious. " They are pious. Although they are

 

 

asking for money, for food, they are

considered pious because they are

 

 

approaching God. And others are just

the opposite. They are duskrtinah,

 

 

impious. Krti means " very

meritorious, " but the word duskrti indicates

 

 

that their energy is being misused

to create havoc. Just like the man

 

 

who invented atomic weapons. He has

a brain, but it has been misused. He

 

 

has created something that is

dreadful. Create something that will

 

 

insure that man will no longer have

to die. What is the use of creating

 

 

something so that millions of people

will immediately die? They will die

 

 

today or tomorrow or after a hundred

years. So what have the scientists

 

 

done? Create something so that man

will not die immediately, so that

 

 

there will be no more disease, so

that there will be no more old age.

 

 

Then you will have done something.

But the duskrtinas never go to God.

 

 

They never try to understand God.

Therefore their energy is misdirected.

 

 

The gross materialists who ignore

their relationship with God are

 

 

described in the Bhagavad-gita as

mudhas. Mudha means " ass, " " donkey. "

 

 

Those who are working very, very

hard to earn money are compared to the

 

 

donkey. They will eat the same four

capatis [whole-wheat bread-patties]

 

 

daily, but they are unnecessarily

working to earn thousands of dollars.

 

 

And others are described as

naradhama. Naradhama means " the lowest of

 

 

mankind. " The human form of

life is meant for God realization. It is the

 

 

right of man to try to realize God.

One who understands Brahman, God, is

 

 

a brahmana, not others. So that is

the duty of this human form of life.

 

 

In every human society there is some

system that is called " religion "

 

 

and by which one may try to

understand God. It doesn't matter whether it

 

 

is the Christian religion, the

Muhammadan religion, or the Hindu

 

 

religion. It doesn't matter. The

system is to understand God and our

 

 

relationship with Him. That's all.

This is the duty of the human beings,

 

 

and if this duty is ignored in human

society, then it is animal society.

 

 

Animals have no power to understand

what is God and their relationship

 

 

with God. Their only interests are

eating, sleeping, mating, and

 

 

defending. If we are only concerned

with these things, then what are we?

 

 

We are animals. Therefore the

Bhagavad-gita says that those who ignore

 

 

this opportunity are the

" lowest of mankind. " They got births and yet

 

 

did not utilize it for God

realization but simply for the animal

 

 

propensities. Therefore they are

naradhama, the lowest of mankind. And

 

 

there are other persons who are very

proud of their knowledge. But what

 

 

is that knowledge? " There is no

God. I am God. " Their actual knowledge

 

 

has been taken away by maya. If they

are God, then how have they become

 

 

dog? There are so many arguments

against them, but they simply defy God.

 

 

Atheism. Because they have taken to

the process of atheism, their actual

 

 

knowledge is stolen away. Actual

knowledge means to know what is God and

 

 

our relationship with God. If one

does not know this, then it is to be

 

 

understood that his knowledge has

been taken away by maya.

 

 

So in this way, if we try to

understand our relationship with God,

 

 

there are ways and means. There are

books, and there is knowledge, so

 

 

why not take advantage of them?

Everyone should take advantage of this

 

 

knowledge. Try to understand that in

the Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic

 

 

literatures, everywhere, it is said

that God is great and that although

 

 

we are qualitatively one with God,

we are minute. The ocean and the

 

 

minute particle of water have the

same quality, but the quantity of salt

 

 

in the drop of water and the

quantity of salt in the ocean are

 

 

different. They are qualitatively

one but quantitatively different.

 

 

Similarly, God is all-powerful, and

we have some power. God creates

 

 

everything, and we can create a small

machine to fly, just like the

 

 

small machines with which children

play. But God can create millions of

 

 

planets flying in the air. That is

the qualification of God. You cannot

 

 

create any planets. Even if you can

create a planet, what is the benefit

 

 

of that? There are millions of

planets created by God. But you also have

 

 

the creative power. God has power,

and you have power. But His is so

 

 

great that yours cannot compare to

it. If you say, " I am God, " that is

 

 

foolishness. You can claim that you

are God, but what acts have you

 

 

performed so extraordinary that you

can claim that you are God? This is

 

 

ignorance. The knowledge of one who

thinks himself God has been taken

 

 

away by the spell of maya. So our

relationship is that God is great and

 

 

we are minute. In the Bhagavad-gita

Krsna clearly says, " All living

 

 

entities are My parts and parcels.

Qualitatively they are one with Me,

 

 

but quantitatively they are

different. " So we are simultaneously one

 

 

with and different from God. That is

our relationship. We are one

 

 

because we have the same qualities

as God. But if we study ourselves

 

 

minutely, we will find that although

we have some great qualities, God

 

 

has them all in greater quantities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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