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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">You are desiring to become God. There cannot be no desire. But you're unceremoniously desiring to become God. Although there is no proof in the śāstras. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is accepted that the living entities are sparks, part and parcel, of God, Kṛṣṇa.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana|Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: Here he says, "The mission of the present avatāra is to make everybody realize that since the same God or divinity resides in everyone, people should respect, love, and..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. If he resides in everyone, then why he has special claim?</p>
<p>Pradyumna: Yes, well he says he has remembered.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He remembers? How God can forget?</p>
<p>Pradyumna: That he says. That he says here. He says that, "Take paddy or rice by way of an illustration. Every grain of rice is enclosed in a husk. You have to remove the husk to get the grain of rice. Now husk and rice both come from the same seed. Rice is the equivalent of God in man."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But still husk is not rice. You cannot say husk is rice.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: He says the husk... He says "Rice is the equivalent of God in man while the husk can be compared to desire which reduces God to man."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: Therefore my desire is life plus desire equals man. Life minus desire equals God."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (dictating:) You are desiring to become God. There cannot be no desire. But you're unceremoniously desiring to become God. Although there is no proof in the śāstras. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is accepted that the living entities are sparks of..., part and parcel of God, Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: "In the Bhagavad-gītā it is accepted that the living entities..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Are part and parcel of God. But part is never equal to the whole. (break)</p>
<p>Pradyumna: "So you can claim as a spark of God, as every living entity can claim but you cannot claim as the..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The Supreme Person with full power. That is misleading. You can show a little magic, as other magicians also can show.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: "You can show a little magic as other magicians can also show."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But you cannot show the full magic, as Kṛṣṇa displayed or Lord Rāmacandra displayed. Therefore your claim as a full power is completely false and blasphemous.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: "Therefore your claim for full power is completely false..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And blasphemous. In this way find out.</p>
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