Satisfy the Supreme Lord through simple chanting; all demigods and nature will automatically serve.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 3.11–19 — December 27, 1968, Los Angeles 681227BG-LOS ANGELES [67:05 Minutes] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "....pleased by sacrifices, will also please you. Thus nourishing one another there will reign general prosperity for all." [Bg. 3.11] [The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one another, there will reign general prosperity for all.] Prabhupāda: Yes. This is very important point. The godless society, they are thinking that everything is being done by nature.
Nature is there, but there is a controller of nature. Just like this electricity. Electricity is natural power, but there is a powerhouse and there is a resident engineer. Similarly, everything supplied by nature, water supply, heat supply, air, so there is a controller, and he is called demigod. They are all appointed servants by the Supreme Lord.
It is simply foolishness that nature is working automatically. This is rascaldom. They do not know, the so-called scientists who are thinking that everything is going on automatically. Yes, it is going on automat... Just like the government affairs are going on automatically.
A child can say that everything is going on automatically, but a person who knows the government, the constitution, he knows how departmental managements are going on. That is the difference between the so-called foolish person and one who knows the things. One who knows the things, he knows that everything is controlled by a person. That person is called demigod. So we have to satisfy.
Therefore the yajña, sacrifice, is recommend. So that is mentioned here, that "Demigods, being pleased by sacrifices..." Just like to the income tax officer if you pay regularly your income tax, then there is no trouble. Everything will go on. Otherwise, the state will enforce to exact income tax. So we are receiving heat from the sun.
Similarly, we are receiving rains. Don't you think that we have to pay some tax? That is required. That is enjoined in the Vedic literature.
You must. Therefore so many sacrifices are recommended. If you do not offer those sacrifices, then there will be irregularity of rain, irregularity of heat, excessive heat, excessive cold, and people will suffer. This is the process.