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Prabhupada: That is nonsense. That is nonsense. You cannot become Krsna. Īsvaraḥ sarva-bhūtanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati [Bg 18.61]. [Transl. The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart.] [break] Can you stay in everyone's heart? You are claiming God. This one instance: isvaraḥ sarva-bhūtanam hrdese 'rjuna tisthati. He is anḍantara-stham-paramanu-cayantara-stham [Bs 5.35]. He is within this universe, and He is within the atom. You are claiming to be isvara, God. Are you within the atom? Are you within your heart..., er, everyone's heart? Then how do you claim that you are isvara? Practical. Īsvaraḥ sarva-bhūtanam. Īsvara, God, God is everyone's heart. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisthaḥ [Bg 15.15]. [Transl. So these things are to be learned and understood. Actually if we mold our lives on the basis of Bhagavad-gita and people also mold their lives like that then the whole humanity will be happy.] And as soon as you manufacture something, then it is spoiled. [Transl. This should be conveyed to her.] That is going on. The so-called gurus, they get some mystic power, yoga-siddhi, and they show it and they mislead people that he is God. That is the difficulty. [Transl. We never say...One book...Where is that book? One book has been published that gurus...] [aside:] Again he has to go? [Transl. They have written about me also and others also. It costs 40 rupees! And they are selling! That includes others' life sketches like when they took birth there was an illumination outside and light within the womb and so on. They did so many miracles, like that. And about me they wrote that I am holding the palm of a boy and teaching him how to write A, A. [The first two alphabets of Bengali language.] This is about me! They didn't write anything like when I was born there was an effulgence, and this had happened, that had happened.] So far as I am concerned, these things are not there. About me, I am... In Dallas I am taking one child's hand and I am teaching them how to write a, a. [Transl. There is no use of showing miracles. Magic, miracles will not do.]    (More...)

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