Prabhupada: …and peach, they are natural products from the jungle. Nobody goes to manufacture, automatically comes out. But when they are combined together, it is nectarean. 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 Krsna consciousness. This nice taste you cannot create by any chemical combination. It is not possible. Because God’s hand is there, it has become so tasteful drink. Man cannot make. This flower, man cannot make. This fruit… Nothing man can make. This nice flower stick, how nicely it is made. So everything you can perceive the hands of God. This is Krsna consciousness. When you perceive the hands of God, presence of God, presence of the energy of God, then you become happy. That is the way of happiness. In every step of life, you feel the hands of God. We are teaching…, this Krsna consciousness movement means how to perceive, realize presence of God in everything. So there will be no disappointment. (to guests:) Take more? Go on eating. Isavasyam idam sarvam. Everything there is. Actually that is a fact. People are so foolish. They are not trained up to understand the presence of God in everything. So we are training that status of life to perceive presence of God in everything. In everything. (pause) This is called peach?

Syamasundara: Um hm. Like those trees we saw on the walk this morning.

Prabhupada: Hm?

Syamasundara: We saw some peach trees, small ones.

Prabhupada: This is also peach?

Atreya Rsi: Yes. No peaches in India?

Prabhupada: Not so big. It is very nice. These fruits are there in India. What is called?

Atreya Rsi: Cherries.

Prabhupada: Cherry.

Atreya Rsi: You have sour cherries too?

Prabhupada: It is sour?

Atreya Rsi: There is some kind of cherries which is very sour, for cooking.

Syamasundara: Those are sweet.

Atreya Rsi: These are sweet.

Prabhupada: They become bigger more?

Atreya Rsi: No.

Prabhupada: What are those biggers?

Syamasundara: Plums.

Atreya Rsi: There’s strawberries.

Syamasundara: They’re plums. Looks like a cherry.

Devotee (3): And these are avocado.

Prabhupada: Fat. Vegetable fat? It is fatty. These fruits are meant for offering to Krsna. Krsna says, patram puspam phalam. Flowers, leaves, fruits He wants. So these are Krsna’s food. Patram puspam phalam toyam.

Room Conversation with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
June 30, 1972, San Diego