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<div class="heading">No. The ocean is gradually... Water is required. Water is required. In our India, if somebody spends extravagantly, so it is compared with water: "Oh, you are spending like water."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- May 4, 1972, Mexico|Room Conversation -- May 4, 1972, Mexico]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: I have one question I wanted to ask you. In Hawaii you said that the ocean was necessary in order to make the rain fall on the land, as a reservoir for fresh water, and that the salt was there to preserve the water from becoming bad.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So?</p>
<p>Devotee: So such huge body of water is required?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Devotee: The oceans cover how much of the earth?</p>
<p>Martin: Three-fifths.</p>
<p>Devotee: Three-fifths of the earth's surface is ocean water. So that much is required to water two-fifths land?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. The ocean is gradually... Water is required. Water is required. In our India, if somebody spends extravagantly, so it is compared with water: "Oh, you are spending like water."</p>
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