SB 1.10.5 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 5
Nadyah samudra girayah savanaspati birudhah Phalantyo sodhaya sarvah kaman anwaritu tasya bai.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Nadyah—rivers, Samudra—oceans, Girayah—hills and mountains, savavanspati—vegetables, Birudha—creepers, Phalntyo—active, Sodhaya—drugs, Sarvah—all, Kamam—necessities, Anwaritu—seasonal, Tasya—for the king, Bai—certainly.
TRANSLATION
The rivers, the oceans, the hills and mountains, forests, creepers and active drugs all in every season profusely used to pay to the king as fixed quota of taxation.
PURPORT
Maharaja Yudhisthir being under the protection of the Ajita, the Infallible as above mentioned, the property of the Lord namely the rivers, oceans, hills, forests, etc., all were duly pleased; they used to supply their respective quota of taxation to the king. The secret to success is to become under the protection of the Supreme Lord. Without His sanction nothing can be possible. To make economic development by our own endeavour on the strength of tools and machinery is not all. The sanction of the Supreme Lord must be there otherwise inspite of all instrumental arrangements everything will be unsuccessful. The ultimate cause of success is the Daiva or the Supreme. Kings like Maharaj Yudhisthir knew it perfectly well that the king is the agent of the Supreme Lord to look after the welfare of mass of people. Actually the state belongs to the Supreme Lord. The rivers, the oceans, the forests, the hills, drugs etc. as above mentioned are not creations of man. They are all creations of the Supreme Lord and the living being is allowed to make use of the property of the Lord for service of the Lord. The present slogan is that everyting is for the people and therefore the Government is for the people by the people. But to produce a new species of humanity at the present moment on the basis of philosophy and religion, on the basis of justice and peace, on the basis of God-consciousness and perfection of human life, the ideology of Godly communism,—the world has again to follow the foot prints of the King Maharaj Yudhisthir or Parikshit. There is enough of everything by the will of the Lord and we can make a proper use of them for living comfortably without any enmity between man to man, to animal or man to nature. Everywhere the control of the Lord is there and if the Lord is pleased every part of nature namely the river will flow profusely to fertitlise the land, the oceans will supply sufficient quantity of minerals, pearls and jewels, the forest will supply sufficient drugs and vegetables and the seasonal changes will effectively help producing fruits and flowers in profuse quantity. The artificial way of living depending on factories and tools can render so-called happiness to a limited circle only at the cost of millions. The energy of the mass of people being engaged in the production of factory, the natural products are being hampered and for this the mass is unhappy. Without being educated properly the mass of people also are following the foot prints of the vested interest for exploiting natural reserve and therefore there is acute competition between individual to individual and nation to nation without any control by the trained agent of the Lord. We must look into the defect of the modern civilzation by comparison here and may follow the foot prints of Maharaj Yudhisthir for cleansing the man and wiping out the anachronism.