Now you have got the United Nations. Now, if they are sane men, they should pass resolution, "The whole world belongs to God, and we are all God's sons. So let us make now United States of the World."

United States of the World

First acknowledge that everything belongs to God

PRABHUPADA: Now you have got the United Nations. Now, if they are sane men, they should pass resolution, "The whole world belongs to God, and we are all God's sons. So let us make now United States of the World." That can be easily done. If they can make United States of America, why not United States of the whole world?

GUEST 2: I think that would probably solve a lot of problems because...

PRABHUPADA: Yes, all problems. Now, suppose in India there is scarcity of foodstuff. In America, in Africa, in Australia, there is enough grain. Produce foodstuff, distribute. Then immediately whole nations become united. Use everything, God's gift—we are all sons—very nicely. Then all the problems solved. Now the difficulty is that we have made, "No, this is my property. We shall use it, nation." In the Vedic conception there is no such thing as national. There is no such conception. That is the idea, Vedic conception of society or politics. There is no question of national.

GUEST 1: You're thinking more of an international world than a national world.

PRABHUPADA: Yes.

GUEST 1: I don't think anybody would disagree with that. I certainly don't.

PRABHUPADA: Yes, that we want to do: one God, one state, one scripture, and one activity. That is the ultimate end of Krishna consciousness movement. Just like we are from different countries. We don't think as nationalism, that "I am American," "I am Indian." No. We all think that "We are all servant of Krishna." And they are working in that spirit. It is possible. If this idea is accepted in that United Nations, it can be done. But they will not accept. They are going to be united, but everyone is thinking, "First of all my interest." All cheating. They are outwardly, "Now we have come to the United Nations," but no one is going to be united. Everyone is thinking, "It is my first interest first. I must give veto if he's opposing." This is going on. Therefore for the last twenty years or more than that, they are trying to be united, but it is becoming disunited. The flags are increasing. In New York they have got their headquarters. When I pass through, I see that another flag has increased. So this United Nations is a failure and it will be failure because there is no God consciousness.

GUEST 3: I don't think it's necessary that it fails.

PRABHUPADA: Hmm?

GUEST 3: I don't think it's necessary that it fails. I don't... I think things are changing definitely throughout the world. It's a matter of which course they take.

PRABHUPADA: No, what changing? They are preparing for war again. Where is changing? A slight provocation, there may be war.

GUEST 1: Yes, but people are changing now. You're getting the young people who for the first time in years are becoming aware and are getting interested in things outside their own town, their own individual state or whatever it is they have. You have people, the young people now are getting interested in things like poverty, they're interested in Bangladesh and so on. This is good. But you nonetheless have a very large proportion of the people who have got that idea of, "I'm all right, and I'll look after mine without taking the overall picture into account." And I think that so long as you have different concepts, different beliefs, it's going to be very hard to get into what you're talking about.

PRABHUPADA: Yes, that is to be united first, that... First thing is that everyone should be convinced or understand clearly that everything belongs to God. But they have no conception of God even. That is the difficulty. The whole human society at the present moment, majority, they are Godless, especially the Communists. They don't acknowledge. The scientist, the philosopher, the scholars—all Godless. Scientists' special business is how to defy God. They say, "Science is everything. We can do everything by science." There is no need of God.