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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="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">They say that this is not incarnation, it is māyā. Just like the sky is covered in a pot, and as soon as the pot breaks, the sky mixes with the big sky. That's all. That is their theory.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- April 8, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Madhudviṣa: If the Māyāvādīs don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then how can they... What is their explanation of reincarnation?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They say that this is not incarnation, it is māyā. Just like the sky is covered in a pot, and as soon as the pot breaks, the sky mixes with the big sky. That's all. That is their theory.</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: So therefore they say God is covered.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not God. You are covered.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: But you are God, they say.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you are God, but you are covered by this body. So as soon as the body is finished, you mix with. Just like you take one pot and you take water. The water is there, but if you break this pot, the water comes and mixes with.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: Then what is their reason for not becoming the biggest rascal? Why not become the biggest rascal? The pot's going to break anyway. What difference does it make? Why not become a big rascal and enjoy?</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: Because the Māyāvādīs, they also perform some austerity and tapasya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just to break the pot. That is their (indistinct)</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: But what is the breaking of the pot?</p>
<p>Lokanātha: The pot doesn't refer to the body but the illusion. They want to get rid of not the body but the illusion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, illusion in this sense, that I am covered by the pot, it will break or I shall break, and when it is broken then there is no more pot. I become one with the sky.</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: So why should you endeavor for it? It's going to happen anyway.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: To break it as soon as possible. (laughter)</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: That doesn't make any sense. "Crackpot philosophy."</p>
<p>Madhudviṣa: If there's no individuality, I can't understand how can there be any desire for...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, there is individuality, but these people do not understand it, because... In the Bhagavad-gītā, acchedyam. It is not that part is taken. The accedya. Because spirit cannot be cut into pieces, and while it is in piece, either you take it in part or something else, that is eternal. It is not that by the māyā we have become piece. Yes. That is not māyā. It is piece. All right, sanātana, mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7|BG 15.7]]), eternally that piece.</p>
<p>Lokanātha: They did not take that to mean the constitutional position of the living entity.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, they do not know. Therefore they are less intelligent. They are individual, but artificially they are thinking, "I shall become one."</p>
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