When you are expert in becoming the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the Lord—hundred times down, servant—then you are perfect.
But here everyone is trying to become the Supreme Lord.
Somebody is misusing the word "so 'ham," "ahaṁ brahmāsmi," and therefore "I am the Supreme." But that is not. These are Vedic words, but so 'ham does not mean "I am God."
"So 'ham" means "I am also the same quality." Because mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ (BG 15.7), jīva is the part and parcel of God, Kṛṣṇa, so the quality is the same. Just like you take a drop of water from the sea. So the chemical composition of the whole water of the sea and a drop of water—the same. That is called "so 'ham" or "brahmāsmi". Not that we misuse these words, Vedic version, and I think falsely that "I am God. I have become God."
--Srila Prabhupada, Lecture SB 07.06.05 - Toronto - June 21, 1976
