What is the difference between you and Krishna?
Rupa-vilasa : In Dallas he was very interested in the students learning the Bhagavad-gita and he asked Dayananda to head up a program to teach them the verses. They had actually become very good at it and they had memorized whole chapters. Several of the students stood up and chanted many verses for Prabhupada. Prabhupada then asked one particular boy, who was quite young, a question. He said, "What is the difference between you and Krishna?" You can imagine this poor bewildered eight-year old kid. Prabhupada asked him a couple of times what was the difference and then he said, "Krishna is pervading everything. Krishna is in all bodies and you are only in this one body. That is the difference." He wanted the students to know the philosophy and not just to memorize the verses. Just like Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur when he was five or six years old, memorized the whole Bhagavad-gita, but he could also explain the verses. Prabhupada had very high hopes.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa
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