The living entity is important

Kurma Dasa: Prabhupada was scheduled to speak at the centre that night. The devotees had set up Prabhupada’s vyasasana at the end of the expansive hall. The combined colour scheme was quite striking — the maha-mantra was painted all around the burnt-orange walls in metre-high dark brown lettering. Illumination came from bright red and yellow paper lanterns hanging from the tall ceiling. Mounted on the back wall was an enormous black and white photographic profile of Srila Prabhupada. Wearing his "Prabhupada hat" with the side flaps folded back, he appeared like a rugged aviator.
When Prabhupada arrived at the hall around twilight, it was packed with both guests and devotees absorbed in a rousing kirtana. Prabhupada’s golden form, with lengths of fragrant frangipani garlands around his neck, looked striking against the purple and pink satin vyasasana. 
After the kirtana, Prabhupada played his karatals and sang Jaya 
Radha-Madhava, then spoke at length on Chapter 7 verse 5 of Bhagavad-gita.
apareyam itas tv anyam prakritim viddhi me param
jiva-bhutam maha-baho yayedam dharyate jagat
"Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature."
Srila Prabhupada returned to the temple around 9pm, leaving most of the devotees behind to serve a feast to the guests. Prabhupada relaxed behind his low desk at the temple as the bells of the last arati ceremony of the day chimed sweetly downstairs.
Prabhupada continued to discuss with a few devotees the theme established in the evening lecture — the distinction between Krishna’s superior energy, the living entities, and his inferior energy, material nature. 
"The man who constructed that hall — he is important or the hall is important?"
"The man, Srila Prabhupada," answered Bali-mardana.
Prabhupada agreed. "But they’re claiming importance to the hall — bahir artha maninah — being enamoured by this big, big building, they do not care about the small particle, the soul." 
Prabhupada gave an example. In America, if a construction worker employed on a skyscraper building site fell down, the owners of the building would not be concerned: "Oh, another man can come. But the skyscraper building is more important."
"But the Bhagavad-gita says:"yayedam dharyate jagat" — the living entity is important because he is maintaining the material world. This wood and stone is not important. He is maintaining the wood and stone. They are giving more importance to the wood and stone than the person who is utilising it. This is ignorance."