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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">You are part and parcel then? What is that?... You are always with God, even your rebellious condition, you are with God. Just like a prisoner. A prisoner is always with the government, (laughter) but in one department he is kicked, and in one department he is patted. That's all. So if you prefer to be kicked, you remain in māyā. But you are always in connection with God.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 1, 1975, Nairobi|Morning Walk -- November 1, 1975, Nairobi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man (9): Your Divine Grace, are we all equal in sight of God?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: Are we all equal in the eyes of God?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But if you become unequal, you must go away. No. His question was they are disturbed. So that means they are unequal. Why they should be disturbed?</p>
<p>Cyavana: Kṛṣṇa says, "All of them, as they surrender, I reward accordingly." So that means they are surrendering in different...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. He has not surrendered. He keeps himself separate from Kṛṣṇa, and he is, artificially he shows surrender. Surrender does not mean that you reserve something for you. That is not surrender. Surrender means without reservation. That is surrender.</p>
<p>Devotee (8): Devotional service must be unconditional, or else it will drive us away.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like a child is surrendered to the parents. The parents say, "Sit down here." He sit down. That's all. No argument. That is surrender.</p>
<p>Indian (10): Śrīla Prabhupāda, when we speak of parts and parcels of God, does it mean that we were there with God before we came to this world?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are part and parcel then? What is that?</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: If we are part and parcels of God does it mean that we were with God before coming to the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You are always with God, even your rebellious condition, you are with God. Just like a prisoner. A prisoner is always with the government, (laughter) but in one department he is kicked, and in one department he is patted. That's all. So if you prefer to be kicked, you remain in māyā. But you are always in connection with God.</p>
<p>Indian man (11): Lord Kṛṣṇa says, "I am in everything."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Your, this punishment condition is also God's creation, external energy. You cannot live for a second without God. But one who knows, he is blessed, and who does not know, he is condemned. But you know or not know, you are always with God. That is your position.</p>
<p>Devotee (12): Śrīla Prabhupāda, how best can we present the teachings of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just abide by the orders of God and His representative. Then you be happy. Otherwise not.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: This side, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sarva dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). That is the verse.</p>
<p>Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Thank you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)</p>
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