Perceive God's hands in everything, and you will never be disappointed again.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — July 1, 1972, San Diego 720701R1-SAN DIEGO [15:05 Minutes] Conv_720701R1-SAN DIEGO Prabhupāda: ...so decomposes. So the outer skin has become dry. Nobody cares for it. It is lying down, the outer cover of the squash, and one dried bamboo.
You have seen? You know bamboo? Part cut, it is also lying somewhere. And a piece of wear. Śyāmasundara: Wire. Prabhupāda: Wire, that is also lying somewhere.
Nobody cares. But one gentleman, he collected all these three things and prepared a string instrument. He joined the bamboo with the dry cover of squash and fitted the string, and it began to ting, ting, ting. It is called ektara.
There is instrument, in India it is called ektara. The example is that so many things individually lying useless, but if somebody knows how to combine them, it becomes an instrument, very sweet, very sweet to hear. Similarly, in this world, so many things are lying dead and frustrated[?].. But if they are combined together by an expert, it becomes useful. So although this world is dead body, when there is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it becomes enlivened.
That is our movement. We are trying to inject Kṛṣṇa consciousness in everything dead within this world. [Prabhupāda drinks] Now just see all these ingredients—strawberry and..., what is that? Ātreya Ṛṣi: Orange juice. Prabhupāda: Orange and honey... Devotee (1): Peach.
Prabhupāda: ...and peach, they are natural products from the jungle. Nobody goes to manufacture; automatically comes out. But when they are combined together, it is nectarine. None of them is manufactured by man, either this honey or the strawberry or the pineapple.
Given by God. So in every step you can perceive the hands of God. Every step. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This nice taste you cannot create by any chemical combination.