use it for Krishna

We can utilize all these material elements in the service of the Lord. So with the earth, we can prepare the forms of the Lord, we can prepare the temple of the Lord, so many things. That is required. That is sattvika. It is called here bhavanam brahmanah sthanam dharanam sad-visesanam. Sad-visesanam. Sad-visesa and asad-visesa. This is asad-visesa. This is to be understood. Asato ma sad gama. That is the Vedic injunction. Asad-visesa... Just like we have got this city-the roads, the cars, the buildings, and so many other things, transformation of the same earth-but they are asad-visesa. They will not stay. Here anything-the house, the car, the road, the city, the body, the society, the friendship, the nation-they are all asat. But the same thing can be done, sad-visesa. Sad-visesa. This temple is sad-visesa. The Deity is sad-visesa. Worshiping the Deity is sad-visesa. So we can utilize.    (More...)

So this is Vaisnava principle. Vaisnava principle means everything accepted as Krsna's. The Mayavadis, they say-at least they say-that brahma satyam jagan mithya. Mithya: "This is false." But Vaisnava says, "No, it is not false. It is the by-product of Krsna's energy. If Krsna is true, how it can be false?" So they do not take this world, material world, as false. It is temporary. But they know how to utilize this material world for devotional service. Bhavanam brahmanah sthanam. You can utilize the same energy of constructing something out of bricks and stones and wood into a nice temple. That was the Vedic culture. Still in old cities you will find in lanes and streets, there are so many temples. I have seen, especially in Kanpur, even within the lane there are so many temples, Radha-Krsna temple, Visnu temples, Siva temple. So all over India you will find the temples. People were so spiritually advanced. Even Muslim, they are also. They have constructed so many mosques. So that should be utilized. If we have got the tendency for making a house or construction of some building with stones and bricks, let it be utilized for constructing temple of the Supreme Brahman.    (More...)