Sin is suffering; service to Krishna alone restores our pure, diseased consciousness to health.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: They make modernized meaning of Bhagavad-gītā. That is insanity. Do you agree or... Reporter (1): What would you regard to be the essence of Bhagavad-gītā? Prabhupāda: Bhagavad-gītā means that there is God, and we are part and parcel of God. God is great, and we are very tiny, small, fragmental portion of God.
In quality we and God are the same, just like a drop of ocean water is qualitatively the same as the big ocean. Reporter (1): Beg your pardon? Prabhupāda: Qualitatively is the same. The drop of ocean water is salty, and the whole ocean is also salty. The salt taste is there. But the drop is never equal to the ocean.
This is the difference. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś... [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13(1)]. This is the Vedic..., that He is also living entity as we are.
So we many, plural number. "We" means living entities. We are many, and He is one. But He is also living entity.
Now where is the difference? The difference is that He maintains the plural number living entities. Reporter (1): He maintains the...? Prabhupāda: Plural, plural number. Plural. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Plural. Prabhupāda: Living entities.
And the plural number living entities are maintained by Him. Reporter (2): In the past... I should start this way... This is the first press conference you are holding in Delhi, isn't it? Prabhupāda: You can come forward. Reporter (1): ...if we can finish this answer, if you don't mind. Reporter (2): Okay. Reporter (1): You said the plural number entities are being maintained by Him. Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like father, and he has got many children.
So both of them are living entities, but the father maintains the children, and the children are maintained by God. One is maintaining, and others are being maintained. That means dependent. We are dependent on God, or Kṛṣṇa. Reporter (1): But, sir, aren't we impure and He is pure? Prabhupāda: No, both of them are.