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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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"They are all My parts and parcels." That is nice, very nice. It is very easy to understand. Part and parcel, that means I am part—He is whole. Part is never equal to the whole, but part is equal in quantity . . . er, quality. Just like a part, a little part of the ocean water. This is also salty, and the whole ocean water is also salty.
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[[Vanisource:690114 - Lecture BG 04.39-42 - Los Angeles|690114 - Lecture BG 04.39-42 - Los Angeles]]
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The process is very easy, but we do not want to follow the instruction of Bhagavad-gītā, but simply falsely I am proud that, "I am reading Bhagavad-gītā." There are so many Bhagavad-gītā readers even in your country. So many. I know. But the real instruction they will not follow. They will interpret in some way, this way, that way. Or some rascal, I mean, commentator will also induce the reader, "Oh, here Kṛṣṇa says that you become devotee of Kṛṣṇa—it is not up to this Kṛṣṇa; there is another Kṛṣṇa." Just see.

You see? Kṛṣṇa directly says that man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.34 (1972)|BG 9.34]]), and the commentator says: "Not to Kṛṣṇa."

So how people can understand, you see, a misleading misinterpretation? Otherwise, if you simply study Bhagavad-gītā, you understand these five principles—what is God, what I am, what is material nature and what is time and what is work. Then you are in full knowledge. These five things are very nicely explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. Try to understand.

"What I am?" That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa says, mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]):

"They are all My parts and parcels." That is nice, very nice. It is very easy to understand. Part and parcel, that means I am part—He is whole. Part is never equal to the whole, but part is equal in quantity . . . er, quality. Just like a part, a little part of the ocean water. This is also salty, and the whole ocean water is also salty.

So qualitatively the little part and particle of the ocean water is the same quality. It is not different. Chemically, if you analyze that one drop of sea water, the chemical composition of that water and the vast water is the same. The only difference is that the ocean is very big, and the small particle of water is very small. That is the difference.

So if I am part and parcel of God, therefore the qualities which I have got, the God has got the same quality. Now you study yourself. Then you can understand what is God. The same qualities are there, but it is unlimited—ours are limited. It is not difficult to understand God. Why they are bewildered to understand God?

God is also—and it is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā and all Vedic literature—God is just like us, a person, an individual person, but very powerful. That is the difference. My power . . . there are different kinds of power. Your power is different from another man. Another man's is different from another man, another man, ano . . . go on, go on, go on. When you find the supreme man, or Supreme Personality, He is God.
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