Wealth

There have been fabulously wealthy men in history and wealthy empires, but from the point of view of Krsna the total wealth of the earth is insignificant. The earth is merely one planet in a solar system, which is but one of sextillions of solar systems in the universe, which is only one of countless universes in the material creation, which is only a tiny cloudy spot in the all-pervading brahma-jyoti in which there are countless spiritual planets. And this brahma-jyoti is emanating from the body of Krsna. This effulgence is simply a by-product and is in no way His real opulence. So the wealth of the Supreme Godhead defies the imagination. Arjuna saw everything concentrated in His body on the battlefield. "Whatever you want to see, you can see in this body all at once," Krsna told him. (Gita, 6.7) Total wealth then means that He contains and owns everything.