Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

There are two questions on my mind that i would like to put forward.

First is about the equality of Man and God, such as Srila Prabhupada proposes when he compares a gold particle to the goldmine, or a drop of seawater to the sea. How does that go together with the 50 qualities the jiva has in comparison to the 64 of Lord Krishna?

HpS - ASA - Ahh!  Haww!  (Ray!).   We had the same question. I guess it would mean that we are like Krsna in small amount in the first 50 qualities.

Second is about verse 17.4. It mentions how men in the mode of ignorance worship spirits. Is there any relation here to the red indians, who were worshipping spirits,  or are those more spirits in name only, not really spirits such as disembodied beings but actually they are worshipping heavenly bodies, such as pantheists? I am reluctant to generally accept red indians as people in the mode of ignorance, but that could be a romantic idea because of how they are portrayed in literature.

HpS - ASA - There was one, "red indian" devotee who was my friend. I think his name was Nityanatha Das. He left his body a few years ago. He was describing some regular rituals, austerities, piercing the skin with sticks and hanging on ropes after fasting with drums and chants going on certain days to get a "spirit guide". It sounded, and he agreed that the "spirits" that adopted you may be of many, many different species:

apsaras, kinnaras, bhutas, pretas, kusmandas, viniyakas etc.  A kitten may be adopted by one of many different species of higher life e.g. a horse, cow, man, child.

Thank you for your reply. We like to read your updates on Monkeywarrior. We ourselves are back on the road in our company car, and it is inspiring our Krishna Consciousness, so we are happy with that.

Your insignificant servant,
Raghava Pandit das

HpS - Taxi wala???
We can get adopted by Srila Prabhupada or throug him, Rupa manjari.