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honest. Why should God think otherwise?
BOB:  So . . . so you may follow God's wishes without knowing you are following God's wishes? Like somebody may be in the mode . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  No, following without knowing—that is absurd. You must know the order of God. And if you follow that, then that is honesty.
BOB:  But somebody would not be honest without knowing God?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, because God is the supreme proprietor, the supreme enjoyer, and He is the supreme friend. That is the statement of the  Bhagavad-gitā . If anyone knows these three things, then he is in full knowledge. These three things only: that God is the proprietor of everything, God is friend of everyone, and God is the enjoyer of everything. For example, everyone knows that in the body, the stomach is the enjoyer. Not the hands, legs, eyes, ears. These are there simply to help the stomach. Eyes—the vulture goes seven miles up to see where there is food for the stomach. Is it not?
BOB:  That is so.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Then the wings fly there, and the jaws catch the food. Similarly, as in this body the stomach is the enjoyer, the central figure of the whole cosmic manifestation, material or spiritual, is  Kṛṣṇa , God. He is the enjoyer. We can understand this just by considering our own bodies. The body is also a creation. The body has the same mechanical nature you will find in the whole universe. The same mechanical arrangement will be found anywhere you go, even in animals. In the human body or in the cosmic manifestation—almost the same mechanism. So you can understand very easily that in this body—my body,