Talks with U.S.
Ambassador Kenneth Keating, October 14, 1972, New Delhi
[Israel
contemplates a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Do
unto others before they do unto you." All because one is Muslim and the
other Jew, and there's not enough room on Earth for the two. But when
it's all over no one will know who was who.]
...It is Israel that has the infamous reputation of
recklessly dashing through the borders of its neighbors (all four of
them to be exact), ordering bombing raids and assassinations across the
region. However, few in Washington and even fewer in the mainstream
media seem at all bothered by the fact that Israeli's nuclear program,
clearly not built for peaceful purposes, is ready to charge with the
press of a button.
...Many pundits and political analysts are casually
and practically discussing as a possible option to the Iran "nuclear
threat" an Israeli aerial bombing campaign of Iranian NUCLEAR RESEARCH
FACILITIES, a joint American-Israeli campaign or an Israeli-style
American campaign (styled after the Israeli air attack on Iraq's Osiraq
nuclear reactor in June 1981).
...A possible
Israeli role in "eliminating" the imaginary Iranian threat is more than
media disseminated rumors, but has in fact been verified on various
occasions, including in the New York Times' January 13
report, stating that Meir Dagan, the chief of the Israeli mossad and
Aharon Zeev-Farkasj, until early January the head of Israel's military
intelligence and "Israeli policy makers all agree that a military
option against Iran's nuclear facilities cannot be ruled out." Similar
conclusions have been conveyed through other well-regarded media,
including the London Sunday Times and Germany's Der
Spiegel. The Times reported that Israeli armed
forces are being readied for a possible March 2006 attack.
Prabhupada: Sutre
mani-gana iva. Just like you have got pearl
necklace, and it is woven in a thread. So all the pearls, they are
resting on that thread. There is no question of good or bad. Everything
is resting in God. There is no question of good or bad. Not that all
good men simply rest on that thread. Whatever we see within our
experience, everything is resting on God. There is another verse in the
Bhagavad-gita, maya tatam idam sarvam jagad
avyakta-murtina: [Bhagavad-gita 9.4] "In the
impersonal form, I am spread all over the manifestation, cosmic
manifestation, and everything is resting on Me, but it is not
necessarily I am in everything." That is the statement there. The
definition of God, first of all, if you take this definition, as the
root of everything, as the source of everything, however you like. It
is the definition given by the Vedanta-sutra, janmady
asya yatah: [Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1] the origin or
birth or emanation of everything. Now you take anything and find out
where is the original cause, then you come to God. Take anything on
this table. Your self, your body. Everything you take, if you go on
searching, searching, searching, what is, where is the origin, then you
come to God. That is the perfect definition of God,
janmady asya yatah: [Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1] the
origin or source of everything. What do you think?
Ambassador: Oh, I'm very impressed.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Ambassador: The last...
Prabhupada: This is the right... Another definition is
God, God is all-attractive. Now, if you try to understand what is this
attractiveness, just like your American country is very opulent, very
attractive. If a man is very rich in the society, he is attractive.
Then if a man is very strong, then he is attractive. If a man is very
famous, he is attractive. If a man—man or woman—if a man is very
beautiful, he is attractive. If a man is in the renounced order, he is
attractive. If a man is very wise, he is attractive. These six features
are attractive features. Now, these attractive features, every one of
us have to some extent. Just like you are ambassador, representative of
USA, so you are attractive. So this attractiveness you have got.
Sometimes I have also got. Somebody comes to me, "Let me see this Swami
speak," you see. So this attractiveness everyone possesses. But God
means who has got all the attractiveness in full. That is God. You may
be very rich, but you cannot say that "I am the richest person in the
world." That is not possible. But God can say "I am the richest person
in the whole creation." Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-loka-maheshvaram [Bhagavad-gita 5.29]. He
says, "I am the proprietor of everything." Just like in America, before
the Europeans migrated to America, the land was there. It belonged to
somebody. Now you are claiming you are proprietor. Say after five
hundred years or something somebody may come. The land is there, we
come here for the time being and claim: "It is my property." But
actually who is the proprietor? Actually God is the proprietor.
Therefore anything produced out of the land, that is also property of
God. Just like if you have got a gold mine in your country. So I am
not.... India will not go to claim that "It is my property." It is your
property, because it is produced with your land. So if the whole land,
whole sky, whole air, whole light, everything belongs to God, then
where is your proprietorship? It is stated, bhumir apo 'nalo
vayuh kham buddhih mano eva [Bhagavad-gita 7.4].
Now, nobody can say "The sky is my property," but there must be some
proprietor of the sky. What do you think? If everything has got a
proprietor, everything is made of these five elements—sky, water, air,
earth—
Syamasundara: Fire.
Prabhupada: Fire, mind, intelligence, ego. These eight
elements. Krishna says that "They are my energies." The things which
are made by Krishna's energy, how you can claim your property? Suppose
a carpenter comes, you give him money to prepare some chair. The money
is your energy. Now when the chair is prepared, he cannot claim that "I
have prepared this chair. It is my property." No. It has been made with
my energy; therefore it is my property. So if you make analysis of this
whole cosmic situation you will find that everything is made out of the
energy of God. Then how you can claim that "I am proprietor"? This is
false. This is called maya. Just like we have seen in Calcutta
when there was a [indistinct] during the transition state. Britishers
are going on. There was a great Hindu-Muslim riot. Now they fought,
Hindus and Muslims, and they died. After death, there lying piles of
dead body. No more Hindu and Muslim. It is simply lump of matter. But
because they got a type of body, a type of mental situation,
consciousness, they fought with one another, and then after death, no
more claiming "Hindu" and "Muslim." This is called illusion. "I am
American," "I am Indian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am this," "I
am that"—these are all designation. Really what I am? I am pure soul,
part and parcel of God. That is my identity. So people should be taught
this science. As soon as one understands his constitutional position,
his actual situation, then he says, "Oh, I am not this. I was
struggling so hard under some misidentification."
