Prabhupāda: Yes. That decision is required, that is knowledge. Simply saying "I am," everyone can say "I am." What is that? You must know what you are. That is required. Therefore I am asking, "What you are?"
Lady Guest: I agree. I am just mentioning that, "I am" is the name of God, and then you add the adjective, and He will be established unto you.
Prabhupāda: No, no, no, no. "I am" is not the name of God. That is identification. That is the identification. God can say "I am," you can say "I am," but that does not mean you are God.
Lady Guest: Jesus Christ said that if you establish what you are after you say "I am" . . .
Prabhupāda: That's all right, everyone is saying "I am." Everyone is saying in ordinary dealing "I am." That is there. But that does not mean different "I am" is the same.
Lady Guest: You decree it. You decree what you are. You decree. With "I am," you decree. You make a decree.
Prabhupāda: No, no, that decree is already there. Just like in the Bible, "God is great." You are not great. Therefore you "I am" and God "I am," different.
Girl: Is it possible to sing the mahā-mantra for someone else who has died, and will it have the same effect?
Prabhupāda: If you say: "I am servant," and God says, "I am master," then it is perfect.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) You said that when I say "I am," and when you say "I am," they are different. But she understands that the essence of everyone is the same.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. But still, in the essence, in the essence means the spirit—that God is the supreme spirit; I am the particle spirit. So far spiritual constitution is concerned, God and the living entity, one. Both of them are spiritual. But the power, God's power and your power, is not the same. It is said in the Bible, so far I remember, "God said, 'Let there be creation.' There was creation." Can you do that, "Let there be creation" and create something? Therefore when God says "I am" and you say "I am," that is different. So "I" means person. As person, He is also person. And "I" means person. You are also person. But that person and you person is different. He is almighty, all-powerful. You have no . . . you have limited power.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: This is Māyāvādī philosophy. (translating) She's saying that when she says: "I am," she doesn't mean "I" in the sense of the lower self but in the higher self. She means that . . .
Prabhupāda: That we have admitted. God is spirit; I am spirit. So both of them "I." But God's power and your power is not equal. God said: "Let there be creation." There was creation. But you say: "Let there be cāpāṭi," there will be no cāpāṭi unless you work. (laughter) You have to work for it.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) God is the whole, and we are parts, and we are evolving to integrate ourselves with that whole.
Prabhupāda: That is all right. But as part . . . just like the finger. You can say: "Part of the body," but it is not the whole body. So finger is working. Just like I am rubbing the head, the finger is . . . but the head is different, the finger is different, but if you take the whole thing, it is body.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) She said without all the parts, it would not be the body, so we are all parts of the whole.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. Still, this is axiomatic truth. Part is not equal to the whole.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) But we are in evolution.
Prabhupāda: Evolution? No, there is no evolution. The part is part eternally, and the whole is whole eternally.
Lady Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) So she's asking does that mean that one does not integrate himself with the whole when he becomes evolved?
Prabhupāda: No, you are already in the whole. What is that?