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	So similarly, in any capacity you analyze, so far the definition of God—wealth . . . now, He's the proprietor of all wealth. Now, nobody can claim . . . even the, I mean, the biggest rich man of your country, the Rockefeller or the Ford company or . . . nobody can claim that he's the only richest man. No. There are many others. So nobody can claim that, "I am the richest." No. Nobody can claim that "I am the most famous." No. Nobody can claim that "I am the most beautiful." Nobody can claim that, "I am the absolute knower." In this way, you apply the definition in yourself, you'll find that you partly and partially represent all the qualities of God.		So similarly, in any capacity you analyze, so far the definition of God—wealth . . . now, He's the proprietor of all wealth. Now, nobody can claim . . . even the, I mean, the biggest rich man of your country, the Rockefeller or the Ford company or . . . nobody can claim that he's the only richest man. No. There are many others. So nobody can claim that, "I am the richest." No. Nobody can claim that "I am the most famous." No. Nobody can claim that "I am the most beautiful." Nobody can claim that, "I am the absolute knower." In this way, you apply the definition in yourself, you'll find that you partly and partially represent all the qualities of God.

	That you can claim, that you are partial God, or part and parcel of . . . that is the exact word, part and . . . ''~~Mamaivāṁśo~~ jīva-bhūta'' ([[BG 15.7 (1972)\|BG 15.7]]). These living entities, ''jīva-bhūta'' . . . there are two definitions of the living entities. One definition is ''jīva-bhūta'', and another definition is ''brahmā bhūta''. What is the ''jīva-bhūta''? So long the living entity has got the misconception of his existence that, "I am this body," he's called ''jīva-bhūta''. And when he is completely in knowledge that, "I am not this body," that is called ''brahma-bhūtaḥ''. The same "I": one is false identification, and another is real identification.		That you can claim, that you are partial God, or part and parcel of . . . that is the exact word, part and . . . ''mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūta'' ([[BG 15.7 (1972)\|BG 15.7]]). These living entities, ''jīva-bhūta'' . . . there are two definitions of the living entities. One definition is ''jīva-bhūta'', and another definition is ''brahmā bhūta''. What is the ''jīva-bhūta''? So long the living entity has got the misconception of his existence that, "I am this body," he's called ''jīva-bhūta''. And when he is completely in knowledge that, "I am not this body," that is called ''brahma-bhūtaḥ''. The same "I": one is false identification, and another is real identification.

	The real identification begins—''brahma-bhūtaḥ'', to know that, "I am not this matter, I am spirit soul." That is the beginning. Even in that beginning understanding that, "I am not this body, I am spirit soul," there is Brahman realization, but that Brahman realization has to be increased. That means not only realize yourself that you are Brahman, or spirit soul, but you have to engage yourself as Brahman and spirit, to work as Brahman. Then the perfection is complete.		The real identification begins—''brahma-bhūtaḥ'', to know that, "I am not this matter, I am spirit soul." That is the beginning. Even in that beginning understanding that, "I am not this body, I am spirit soul," there is Brahman realization, but that Brahman realization has to be increased. That means not only realize yourself that you are Brahman, or spirit soul, but you have to engage yourself as Brahman and spirit, to work as Brahman. Then the perfection is complete.
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	Everywhere there is. Your period of life may be very long, but these four things are there. You have to take your birth. Suppose you prepare yourself for going to the moon planet. Then next life, after leaving this body, you'll be pushed into the womb of a mother there in the moon planet, and you'll come out with a suitable body.		Everywhere there is. Your period of life may be very long, but these four things are there. You have to take your birth. Suppose you prepare yourself for going to the moon planet. Then next life, after leaving this body, you'll be pushed into the womb of a mother there in the moon planet, and you'll come out with a suitable body.

	So the birth is there, and wherever there is birth and death, there is disease and old age. But I am, as spirit soul, I am free from . . . ''~~Asaṅgo~~ 'yaṁ puruṣaḥ''. I have nothing to do with birth, death and disease and old age. I am spirit soul. ''Na jāyate na mriyate na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[BG 2.20 (1972)\|BG 2.20]]). ''Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ purāṇaḥ''. It is always, although it is the oldest, it is always fresh. Just like I have become. Now, amongst you, I am the oldest man. You are fresh. But the propensities of you and when the . . . of me, it is the same. I want to enjoy life. The same propensities which I had in my youthful life, I've got still. But because my body has become old, I cannot enjoy like that. So it is the bodily impediments that is hampering my real happiness.		So the birth is there, and wherever there is birth and death, there is disease and old age. But I am, as spirit soul, I am free from . . . ''asaṅgo 'yaṁ puruṣaḥ''. I have nothing to do with birth, death and disease and old age. I am spirit soul. ''Na jāyate na mriyate na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[BG 2.20 (1972)\|BG 2.20]]). ''Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ purāṇaḥ''. It is always, although it is the oldest, it is always fresh. Just like I have become. Now, amongst you, I am the oldest man. You are fresh. But the propensities of you and when the . . . of me, it is the same. I want to enjoy life. The same propensities which I had in my youthful life, I've got still. But because my body has become old, I cannot enjoy like that. So it is the bodily impediments that is hampering my real happiness.

	So problem is how to get out of this entanglement of repetition of taking one body after another, one body after another, as we are taking in this life also. That is the solution. That solution is ''yad gatvā na nivartante''. Kṛṣṇa says, ''tad dhāma paramaṁ mama'' ([[BG 15.6 (1972)\|BG 15.6]]): "If you go to My planet, you have no more (to) come back again." You get your eternal life, eternal, blissful life, full of knowledge and remain, enjoy like Kṛṣṇa with Kṛṣṇa. That is the highest perfection.		So problem is how to get out of this entanglement of repetition of taking one body after another, one body after another, as we are taking in this life also. That is the solution. That solution is ''yad gatvā na nivartante''. Kṛṣṇa says, ''tad dhāma paramaṁ mama'' ([[BG 15.6 (1972)\|BG 15.6]]): "If you go to My planet, you have no more (to) come back again." You get your eternal life, eternal, blissful life, full of knowledge and remain, enjoy like Kṛṣṇa with Kṛṣṇa. That is the highest perfection.

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	Otherwise, it is not possible. If you don't find such person, then you'll always remain ignorant what is God. That is the process. But there is authority. There is possibility, provided we are fortunate, we get in contact. Then everything is all right.		Otherwise, it is not possible. If you don't find such person, then you'll always remain ignorant what is God. That is the process. But there is authority. There is possibility, provided we are fortunate, we get in contact. Then everything is all right.

	Bhaktijana Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikuṇṭhas or Brahmaloka?		'''Bhaktijana:''' Does Jesus Christ reside in the Vaikuṇṭhas or Brahmaloka?

	'''Prabhupāda:''' No. Vaikuṇṭha. He's person. Brahmaloka, Brahmaloka is within this material world, and Vaikuṇṭha, in the spiritual world. Do you follow what I say? That if you want to know God, you have to approach a person who knows God. Otherwise there is no possibility. If you think that, "Here is a man who knows God," then you ask him. If you don't think that in this world there is no man who knows God, then you have to remain in ignorance about the knowledge of God.		'''Prabhupāda:''' No. Vaikuṇṭha. He's person. Brahmaloka, Brahmaloka is within this material world, and Vaikuṇṭha, in the spiritual world. Do you follow what I say? That if you want to know God, you have to approach a person who knows God. Otherwise there is no possibility. If you think that, "Here is a man who knows God," then you ask him. If you don't think that in this world there is no man who knows God, then you have to remain in ignorance about the knowledge of God.

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	Where is the spirit soul . . . now, if you medically analyze where is the spirit soul, you cannot find out. But there, in the ''yoga'' process, there are different rules and regulations, sitting posture and then breathing exercise, controlling the air passing through this body. In that way, gradually you come to know what is that . . . not only you come to know, but the perfection of ''yoga'' system is that you can practice to take the soul from six different position, from the navel position to the heart, then to the, it is called, what is called?		Where is the spirit soul . . . now, if you medically analyze where is the spirit soul, you cannot find out. But there, in the ''yoga'' process, there are different rules and regulations, sitting posture and then breathing exercise, controlling the air passing through this body. In that way, gradually you come to know what is that . . . not only you come to know, but the perfection of ''yoga'' system is that you can practice to take the soul from six different position, from the navel position to the heart, then to the, it is called, what is called?

	Jadurāṇī: Throat.		'''Jadurāṇī:''' Throat.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Neck. Yes, ''kantha''. Then you can bring it between the brows, and when you are sufficiently practiced, you can transfer your soul from the top of your brain to any planet you like. That is the perfection of ''yoga''. That is not possible nowadays. Nobody can practice. Real perfection of ''yoga'' is not possible in this age. That breathing exercise, the sitting posture, following the rules and regulations . . . nobody's following the rules and regulation, what to speak of the sitting posture. That is a process, recommended process. That is mentioned in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also, and in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' also. But that process is not possible at the present days.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Neck. Yes, ''kantha''. Then you can bring it between the brows, and when you are sufficiently practiced, you can transfer your soul from the top of your brain to any planet you like. That is the perfection of ''yoga''. That is not possible nowadays. Nobody can practice. Real perfection of ''yoga'' is not possible in this age. That breathing exercise, the sitting posture, following the rules and regulations . . . nobody's following the rules and regulation, what to speak of the sitting posture. That is a process, recommended process. That is mentioned in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also, and in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' also. But that process is not possible at the present days.

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	'''Prabhupāda:''' There is no eternal life. In the moon planet . . . it is a planet like this planet. So as there is death, birth, old age and disease, so you go in any planet within this universe—there are millions of planets—the same thing will follow. The moon planet's . . . standard of moon planet may be a little more comfortable materially, just like the standard of living in your country is little better than Indian standard of living. But that does not mean you are not under the laws of these material sufferings. The same thing, either you become white or black or American or Indian, the material sufferings are there, birth death, old age and disease. But if you want to get out of it, then Kṛṣṇa. Yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' There is no eternal life. In the moon planet . . . it is a planet like this planet. So as there is death, birth, old age and disease, so you go in any planet within this universe—there are millions of planets—the same thing will follow. The moon planet's . . . standard of moon planet may be a little more comfortable materially, just like the standard of living in your country is little better than Indian standard of living. But that does not mean you are not under the laws of these material sufferings. The same thing, either you become white or black or American or Indian, the material sufferings are there, birth death, old age and disease. But if you want to get out of it, then Kṛṣṇa. Yes.

	Bhaktijana: If you come to the Brahmaloka, do you have to come back to the . . .		'''Bhaktijana:''' If you come to the Brahmaloka, do you have to come back to the . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes.

	Bhaktijana: . . . the earth planet?		'''Bhaktijana:''' . . . the earth planet?

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, any planet, earth planet or any planet. Suppose if I go out of your state—I may go to England or I may go to hell, but I am out. That's all. Your immigration departments wants that I, I must be out. I may go to hell or England or any other. (laughs) They want to say: "You are out." Similarly, the Brahmaloka planet, you'll see that you are out, either you come to this planet or moon planet or hell planet or heaven planet. That doesn't matter. They won't allow you to stay there. But the advantage of Brahmaloka planet is that you get very, very long duration of life and the standard of living, and there are so many things. Yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, any planet, earth planet or any planet. Suppose if I go out of your state—I may go to England or I may go to hell, but I am out. That's all. Your immigration departments wants that I, I must be out. I may go to hell or England or any other. (laughs) They want to say: "You are out." Similarly, the Brahmaloka planet, you'll see that you are out, either you come to this planet or moon planet or hell planet or heaven planet. That doesn't matter. They won't allow you to stay there. But the advantage of Brahmaloka planet is that you get very, very long duration of life and the standard of living, and there are so many things. Yes.

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	So actually it is not the position. I am God in that sense I have already analyzed, that I have got the, in minute quantity . . . as I am minute quantity, fragmental portion of God, so similarly, I have got all the qualities of God in fragment. For example, this consciousness take. That is practical. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, it is not that Kṛṣṇa has got consciousness and you haven't got consciousness. You have got also consciousness. That's a practical experience. Every one of us are conscious as God is conscious. So you are also conscious. Now, what is the difference between God's consciousness and your consciousness? That you have to find out. Can you say me? You should know all these things. Consciousness . . .		So actually it is not the position. I am God in that sense I have already analyzed, that I have got the, in minute quantity . . . as I am minute quantity, fragmental portion of God, so similarly, I have got all the qualities of God in fragment. For example, this consciousness take. That is practical. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, it is not that Kṛṣṇa has got consciousness and you haven't got consciousness. You have got also consciousness. That's a practical experience. Every one of us are conscious as God is conscious. So you are also conscious. Now, what is the difference between God's consciousness and your consciousness? That you have to find out. Can you say me? You should know all these things. Consciousness . . .

	Devotee: God's consciousness is absolute, mine is not.		'''Devotee:''' God's consciousness is absolute, mine is not.

	Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore you are not God. God consciousness is described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā: idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetra'' ([[BG 13.1-2 (1972)\|BG 13.2]]). The Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, says that "This body is the field of our activities." Otherwise, it is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' that ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi'' ([[BG 13.3 (1972)\|BG 13.3]]): "I am also conscious. I am also knower." As you are knower, so God is also knower. But the difference of His knowledge—that He's omnipotent, omnipresent; you are not omnipotent, omnipresent. That is the difference.		Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore you are not God. God consciousness is described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā: idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetra'' ([[BG 13.1-2 (1972)\|BG 13.2]]). The Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, says that "This body is the field of our activities." Otherwise, it is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' that ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi'' ([[BG 13.3 (1972)\|BG 13.3]]): "I am also conscious. I am also knower." As you are knower, so God is also knower. But the difference of His knowledge—that He's omnipotent, omnipresent; you are not omnipotent, omnipresent. That is the difference.
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	Young woman: A rose. And, a rose . . .		Young woman: A rose. And, a rose . . .

	Devotee: A flower.		'''Devotee:''' A flower.

	Prabhupāda: A rose? Oh.		Prabhupāda: A rose? Oh.
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	(''kīrtana'') (Prabhupāda leads ''prema-dhvanī'') Thank you very much.		(''kīrtana'') (Prabhupāda leads ''prema-dhvanī'') Thank you very much.

	Devotee: (offers obeisances)		'''Devotee:''' (offers obeisances)

	Prabhupāda: Give me that paper. Distribute ''prasādam''. (break) . . . this appreciation one thing. And another thing is how to produce a flower like Kṛṣṇa with my energy. Do you follow? Two attempt. One is appreciation of Kṛṣṇa's energy, how great He is, that simply by His desire, His energies are so perfect that it is producing such nice flower. This is appreciation. And another thing is, how shall I get that power, yogic power, so that as soon as I desire, there may be a rose flower.		Prabhupāda: Give me that paper. Distribute ''prasādam''. (break) . . . this appreciation one thing. And another thing is how to produce a flower like Kṛṣṇa with my energy. Do you follow? Two attempt. One is appreciation of Kṛṣṇa's energy, how great He is, that simply by His desire, His energies are so perfect that it is producing such nice flower. This is appreciation. And another thing is, how shall I get that power, yogic power, so that as soon as I desire, there may be a rose flower.

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	So, so we are thinking at the present moment that, "I am God. I am independent." That is ''māyā. Māyā'' means which is not actual fact. Plain philosophy. If you are God, then you must know what is God. God is never dependent. That is the definition given in ''Vedānta-sūtra: svarāṭ. Svarāṭ'' means fully independent. That is one of the quality of God. ''Janmādyasya yataḥ 'nvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāṭ'' ([[SB 1.1.1]]). ''Svarāṭ'' means fully independent and fully conscious. So your consciousness is not full. Your independence is not full. That you cannot have. Now you belong to a independent country, but you are not fully independent. As soon as the state laws want you for some particular purpose, in spite of your unwillingness, you have to act. That means you are not fully independent, even in the state relationship. And how you are fully independent in God's relationship?		So, so we are thinking at the present moment that, "I am God. I am independent." That is ''māyā. Māyā'' means which is not actual fact. Plain philosophy. If you are God, then you must know what is God. God is never dependent. That is the definition given in ''Vedānta-sūtra: svarāṭ. Svarāṭ'' means fully independent. That is one of the quality of God. ''Janmādyasya yataḥ 'nvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāṭ'' ([[SB 1.1.1]]). ''Svarāṭ'' means fully independent and fully conscious. So your consciousness is not full. Your independence is not full. That you cannot have. Now you belong to a independent country, but you are not fully independent. As soon as the state laws want you for some particular purpose, in spite of your unwillingness, you have to act. That means you are not fully independent, even in the state relationship. And how you are fully independent in God's relationship?

	So your claim that "I am God" is not fulfilled there, because God is ~~independent; you~~ are not independent. How you can claim that you are God? Can you answer this question? Because in your school it is taught that "I am God." I say God is fully independent. Are you fully independent? Then how can you claim you are God? Can anyone answer this? Because this philosophy is going on.		So your claim that "I am God" is not fulfilled there, because God is independent—you are not independent. How you can claim that you are God? Can you answer this question? Because in your school it is taught that "I am God." I say God is fully independent. Are you fully independent? Then how can you claim you are God? Can anyone answer this? Because this philosophy is going on.

	Everyone is thinking, "I am God." So if you are not fully independent, you are, if you are not fully conscious, everything, you are simply a minute part. Minute part means because you are part and parcel of the Supreme. So everything is there in you in minute parts but not in full. Just like the definition of God as it is given in the Vedic literature:		Everyone is thinking, "I am God." So if you are not fully independent, you are, if you are not fully conscious, everything, you are simply a minute part. Minute part means because you are part and parcel of the Supreme. So everything is there in you in minute parts but not in full. Just like the definition of God as it is given in the Vedic literature:
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	Then next age, ''tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ. Makhaiḥ'' means sacrifice, performing great sacrifices. Sacrifice means, if you want to perform sacri . . . you require hundreds of mounds of butter and so much grain, so many things that you cannot provide at the present moment. Nobody can provide. So that is also not possible. ''Yajato makhaiḥ. Makhaiḥ'' means sacrifices, great sacrifices. And ''dvāpare paricaryāyām''. The next stage, by temple worship or church worship. That is also not possible. Nobody is interested in this age to go to the temple or to the church, or they are not satisfied with the management of the temples or the church. So many things. Anyway, this has become practically impossible to get any enlightenment.		Then next age, ''tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ. Makhaiḥ'' means sacrifice, performing great sacrifices. Sacrifice means, if you want to perform sacri . . . you require hundreds of mounds of butter and so much grain, so many things that you cannot provide at the present moment. Nobody can provide. So that is also not possible. ''Yajato makhaiḥ. Makhaiḥ'' means sacrifices, great sacrifices. And ''dvāpare paricaryāyām''. The next stage, by temple worship or church worship. That is also not possible. Nobody is interested in this age to go to the temple or to the church, or they are not satisfied with the management of the temples or the church. So many things. Anyway, this has become practically impossible to get any enlightenment.

	So ''dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt''. Therefore in this age of disagreement and quarrel, this is the best process. Never mind whatever you are. It doesn't require any prequalification. Simply you sit down. You sit down together and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. You see? Very practical. You haven't got to sit in a particular position or fashion, āsana. You haven't got to exercise your breathing process. Nothing. Simply you sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. And that we have read just now, a practical experience of one reporter, and there are students. They have got practical . . . simply by chanting you get the highest ecstasy.		So ''dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt''. Therefore in this age of disagreement and quarrel, this is the best process. Never mind whatever you are. It doesn't require any prequalification. Simply you sit down. You sit down together and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. You see? Very practical. You haven't got to sit in a particular position or fashion, ''āsana''. You haven't got to exercise your breathing process. Nothing. Simply you sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. And that we have read just now, a practical experience of one reporter, and there are students. They have got practical . . . simply by chanting you get the highest ecstasy.

	So it is said in the ''Bhāgavata'':		So it is said in the ''Bhāgavata'':
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	So actually it is not the position. I am God in that sense I have already analyzed, that I have got the, in minute quantity . . . as I am minute quantity, fragmental portion of God, so similarly, I have got all the qualities of God in fragment. For example, this consciousness take. That is practical. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, it is not that Kṛṣṇa has got consciousness and you haven't got consciousness. You have got also consciousness. That's a practical experience. Every one of us are conscious as God is conscious. So you are also conscious. Now, what is the difference between God's consciousness and your consciousness? That you have to find out. Can you say me? You should know all these things. Consciousness . . .		So actually it is not the position. I am God in that sense I have already analyzed, that I have got the, in minute quantity . . . as I am minute quantity, fragmental portion of God, so similarly, I have got all the qualities of God in fragment. For example, this consciousness take. That is practical. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Now, it is not that Kṛṣṇa has got consciousness and you haven't got consciousness. You have got also consciousness. That's a practical experience. Every one of us are conscious as God is conscious. So you are also conscious. Now, what is the difference between God's consciousness and your consciousness? That you have to find out. Can you say me? You should know all these things. Consciousness . . .

	Devotee: God's consciousness is absolute; mine is not.		Devotee: God's consciousness is absolute, mine is not.

	Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore you are not God. God consciousness is described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā: idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetra'' ([[BG 13.1-2 (1972)\|BG 13.2]]). The Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, says that "This body is the field of our activities." Otherwise, it is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' that ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi'' ([[BG 13.3 (1972)\|BG 13.3]]): "I am also conscious. I am also knower." As you are knower, so God is also knower. But the difference of His knowledge—that He's omnipotent, omnipresent; you are not omnipotent, omnipresent. That is the difference.		Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore you are not God. God consciousness is described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā: idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetra'' ([[BG 13.1-2 (1972)\|BG 13.2]]). The Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, says that "This body is the field of our activities." Otherwise, it is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' that ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi'' ([[BG 13.3 (1972)\|BG 13.3]]): "I am also conscious. I am also knower." As you are knower, so God is also knower. But the difference of His knowledge—that He's omnipotent, omnipresent; you are not omnipotent, omnipresent. That is the difference.
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	So from ''jīva-bhūta'' stage, completely dependent on the laws of nature, you gradually become free from the laws of nature. And when you are perfectly free from the laws of nature, that is called ''brahma-bhūta'' stage. ''Brahma-bhūta'' stage means self-realized stage. And, and the symptom is ''prasannātmā'', always joyful.		So from ''jīva-bhūta'' stage, completely dependent on the laws of nature, you gradually become free from the laws of nature. And when you are perfectly free from the laws of nature, that is called ''brahma-bhūta'' stage. ''Brahma-bhūta'' stage means self-realized stage. And, and the symptom is ''prasannātmā'', always joyful.

	An ordinary man, habituated to smoke, oh, if I ask him to don't smoke, oh, he'll feel inconvenience after half an hour. There is many chain-smoker; they feel . . . they ask permission, "Swāmījī, can I smoke?" Feeling disturbances. But these boys and girls who were habituated to smoking and everything, they have given for years but they don't feel any inconvenience. This is liberation from one point.		An ordinary man, habituated to smoke, oh, if I ask him to don't smoke, oh, he'll feel inconvenience after half an hour. There is many chain-smoker, they feel . . . they ask permission, "Swāmījī, can I smoke?" Feeling disturbances. But these boys and girls who were habituated to smoking and everything, they have given for years but they don't feel any inconvenience. This is liberation from one point.

	Two points. Second point: when he's cent per cent liberated from these material demands, then he's perfect, as good as God. But I've seen that so many, I mean to . . . students of ''yoga'' class, they cannot give up their these habits. I have seen. Neither they ask them to give up this habit. Then nobody will go. These are practical.		Two points. Second point: when he's cent per cent liberated from these material demands, then he's perfect, as good as God. But I've seen that so many, I mean to . . . students of ''yoga'' class, they cannot give up their these habits. I have seen. Neither they ask them to give up this habit. Then nobody will go. These are practical.
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	Similarly, moon planet also, the standard of living and duration of life, you get ten thousand years of life, and there one day equal to your six months. What you calculate as six months here according to the solar system, in the moon planet that six months equal to their one day. Similarly, thirty days, one month; twelve months, one year. Similarly, ten thousand years you get, life there. But there is death.		Similarly, moon planet also, the standard of living and duration of life, you get ten thousand years of life, and there one day equal to your six months. What you calculate as six months here according to the solar system, in the moon planet that six months equal to their one day. Similarly, thirty days, one month; twelve months, one year. Similarly, ten thousand years you get, life there. But there is death.

	Just like the small ~~microbe; it~~ has got life, say, for few minutes, and you have got life, say, for a hundred years. That does not mean that you are immortal and that the microbe is a mortal. Both of us. Similarly, there are, in other planets, the duration of life may be very, very, very long, but that does not mean that they will not die. The death is there.		Just like the small microbe—it has got life, say, for few minutes, and you have got life, say, for a hundred years. That does not mean that you are immortal and that the microbe is a mortal. Both of us. Similarly, there are, in other planets, the duration of life may be very, very, very long, but that does not mean that they will not die. The death is there.

	Death can be eradicated only when you go to Kṛṣṇaloka, or in the spiritual sky. ''Yad gatvā'' . . .		Death can be eradicated only when you go to Kṛṣṇaloka, or in the spiritual sky. ''Yad gatvā'' . . .

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