This material world is explained by Kṛṣṇa as duḥkhālayam. Ālayam means place, and duḥkha means distress. Everything is distressful here, but fools being illusioned, covered by the illusory māyā, that distress he accepts as happiness. That is māyā. It is not at all happiness. A man is working whole day and night, and because he's getting some paper where it is written, "We trust in God. Take this paper, hundred dollars. I cheat you." Is it not? "We trust in God. I promise to pay you. Take this paper now. Not even one cent worth. It is written there hundred dollars." So I am thinking I am very happy: "Now I have got this paper." That's all. Cheaters and cheated. This is going on.
American slogan "In God We Trust"
Expressions researched:
"Americans say they trust in God"
|"In God I trust"
|"In God we believe, we trust"
|"in God we trust"
|"so-called trust in God"
|"we trust in God"
|"you have trust in God"
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
A man is working whole day and night, and because he's getting some paper where it is written, "We trust in God. Take this paper, hundred dollars. I cheat you." Is it not?
Lecture on BG 2.15 -- London, August 21, 1973: