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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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If I am part and parcel of God, my duty is to serve. This example I have given you many times: Just like this finger is the part and parcel of my body. So what is the duty of this finger? The duty of the finger is to serve the whole body, that's all. If I am feeling something itching, immediately finger is working.
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Revatīnandana: "One can avoid worshiping a respectable man or demigod, and he may be called discourteous, but one cannot avoid serving the Supreme Lord without being thoroughly condemned. Every living entity is a part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such, every living entity is intended to serve the Supreme Lord by his own constitution."

Prabhupāda: Yes. This is natural. If I am part and parcel of God, my duty is to serve. This example I have given you many times: Just like this finger is the part and parcel of my body. So what is the duty of this finger? The duty of the finger is to serve the whole body, that's all. If I am feeling something itching, immediately finger is working.

You see? If I want to see, the eyes immediately work. If I want to go, the legs immediately take me. So as this bodily part and part, limbs, are helping me, the whole thing, and I am eating, and the stomach, I am eating only. Similarly, God is meant for simply receiving service from all other parts. Not to serve. This service . . .

If the limbs of the body serves the whole body, the energy automatically comes to the parts of the body. Similarly, if we serve Kṛṣṇa, we get all our necessities, energy, automatically. Yathā taror mūla-niṣecanena ([[Vanisource:SB 4.31.14|SB 4.31.14]]).

The example, just like pouring water on the root of the tree, the energy is immediately supplied to the leaves, to the twigs, to the branches, to the everywhere, immediately. Similarly, simply by serving Kṛṣṇa, or God, you supply all other parts, you serve all other parts.

There is no question of serving differently, "The humanity serves . . ." Everything automatically comes, everything. Sympathy not only for human being, even for the animals the sympathy comes. God consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so nice. Without God consciousness, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the sympathy for other living entities is very limited. But with God consciousness, with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the sympathy for other living entities is full. That is the system.

Go on.

Revatīnandana: "Failing to do this, he falls down. The Bhāgavatam confirms this as follows: 'Anyone who does not render service and neglects his duty unto the Primeval Lord, who is the source of all living entities, will certainly fall down from his constitutional position.' "

Prabhupāda: Yes.
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