Everything belongs to Krishna; forgetting this makes even magnificent creations mere illusions of maya.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 13, 1974, Paris 740613MW-PARIS [41:43 Minutes] Walk_740613MW-PARIS Prabhupāda: What do you understand by the word māyā? Yogeśvara: "That which is not." Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Things which we place value on that have no relation to Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Hmm. The māyā is explained very nicely in the Bhāgavata, yathābhāso yathā tamaḥ [SB 2.9.34]. Just like sun is reflected in the water, and the light is reflected again on the wall. This is the exact explanation of māyā.
Reality... This material world, the man who manufactured all these things, nobody knows where he has gone. But these things are taken as reality. This will be also finished.
It will remain as relics, as Rome, relics, but when it was..., the houses were prepared with great enthusiasm as reality. And now it is as relics. So the energy expended for manufacturing those house, that is also māyā, and now they are being visited as relics, that is also māyā. So all these things are māyāra vaibhava, expansion of māyā.
So if somebody says that you don't appreciate these things, no, we appreciate, very much appreciate intelligence. But if you, for this appreciation, if you forget, then it is māyā. Forget Kṛṣṇa. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Then it is māyā. Otherwise, it is reality.
If they would have installed Deity worship in these buildings, how much nice it would have been—people chanting, dancing, and taking prasādam, twenty-four hours. Then it is no more māyā; it is reality. Such big, big, nice houses, they should have been places of worshiping Kṛṣṇa. But they're worshiping bones, keeping some dead bones, and...
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: People must be educated that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: That is a fact. Why do they not understand? Paramahaṁsa: The government argues that they do not want to discriminate against any religious faith. So they remain secular. Prabhupāda: No, no. That is no government...
Religious faith is different. That is nonsense. You..., we are talking of science. We are, just like we were saying that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa.