Prabhupāda: God created this material world. What is the purpose? What is the purpose of creation? There must be some plan. When you manufacture something, do something, there must be plan. So what is the plan behind this cosmic manifestation?
Cardinal Danielou: Yes. What is this plant lan? Yes. Yes, sir. Yes.
Prabhupāda: What Christianity says about this plan?
Cardinal Danielou: Christianity thinks that creation is the work of the love of God, and the signification of creation is that God wants to partake His richness, His joy, His beauty with free spirit, and the goal of the creation is essentially the realization of this communion with God. The communion with God. Alors, the visible world is without great importance. It is an appearance. But there is a reality in human person, in human personality, because human personality is . . . has a . . .
Yogeśvara: If you like, I can translate. (French: suggesting he translate so the other people can understand)
Cardinal Danielou: Oui. You understand, you understand what I say? Or not very well? (French)
Prabhupāda: So the creation . . . we are, we all living entities, we are also part and parcel of God.
Yogeśvara: (translates)
Cardinal Danielou: Oui.
Prabhupāda: Just like this finger . . .
Cardinal Danielou: Yes, yes, is a . . .
Prabhupāda: Part and parcel of this body. Similarly, everything . . .
Cardinal Danielou: Is a part.
Prabhupāda: Part and parcel of God.
Cardinal Danielou: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So the part and parcel of the God, the living entity, its business is to render service to God.
Cardinal Danielou: To render . . .?
Yogeśvara: (translates)
Cardinal Danielou: Yes, yes, yes. I agree, I agree.