Without God consciousness, all efforts are zero; only divine knowledge creates truly educated and peaceful human beings.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Press Conference — July 16, 1975, San Francisco 750716PC-SAN FRANCISCO [30:18 Minutes] PressConf_750716PC-SAN FRANCISCO Jayatīrtha: The first question, which you can address yourself to on a general basis, is "What is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement?" [cameras clicking]
Prabhupāda: So this photograph will go on? Jayatīrtha: Just for a few moments.
Prabhupāda: Let it be finished. Otherwise, attention will be diverted. [break] Bhaktadāsa: ...photograph, we'd like to introduce the founder-ācārya, spiritual master, of the entire Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, His Divine Grace A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who founded this movement in 1966, coming here to America from Calcutta. Now His Divine Grace has very kindly once again come to San Francisco to lead us in this holy Ratha-yātrā Jagannātha cart parade. And we will ask him the questions that you have written down, and he will answer those questions, like that. So the first question, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is "What is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement?" Prabhupāda: Yes.
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means that every one of us is in some type of consciousness: "I am American," "I am Indian," and "It is my property," "America is my property," "India is my property." But we say that "Everything is Kṛṣṇa's property." Kṛṣṇa is the... Kṛṣṇa, God. When we say Kṛṣṇa, we mean God. God is the original proprietor.
And He is, therefore, the supreme enjoyer, and He is everyone's friend. If we understand these three things, then we become peaceful. If all the nations in the United Nation assembly accept that everything belongs to God, then their quarrel between one nation to another nation immediately stops. But present fighting is that two hundred years ago the Americans were mostly in Europe.
Now they have migrated, and claiming America is theirs. So we think always that "All land belongs to God." Just like this big ocean. Who has created this ocean? Man has not created.