Of course, in the city like New York, it is very difficult, (laughs) but in India it is not at all difficult. Because mostly they live, ninety percent of the population, they are villagers. So any villager, if he goes to another villager, "Sir, I want some flowers for worshiping God," "Oh, take it!" Immediately. Nobody will . . . in your country also, nobody will deny that. But here in the city there is no flower at all. Where to collect? If you go to the florist then I have to pay. That's a different proposal. But actually, in ordinary course of life, nobody is bereft of these four things.
But one thing: When we stand on the supreme conscious . . . I mean the, in my consciousness platform, you must know, this consciousness platform and the dovetailing of consciousness to the supreme consciousness—the whole thing based on love. Love, pure love. Just like a, a small child offers his broken biscuit to the father, "My dear father, you just taste—it is very nice." Oh, father . . ."Oh, it is very nice? All right. Give me it." But a small part, particle of biscuit, is nothing for the father, but the father sees, "Oh, my child is so loving that he has tasted it good and offering me." This is the consideration of love, exchange of love.
So God is not poor, neither He's wanting for you. He's self-satisfied. He's satisfying many, many living creatures like me. So He does not require anything from me. It is for your sake. It is for your benefit that you should offer like that. Now, this is dovetailing. "Oh, God's wants to eat from me. Now, why shall I not give Him to . . . give Him something to eat?" Is it very difficult? Similarly, in every sphere of your life, you can dovetail. You can dovetail. Instead of thinking of that "I shall eat," if you think that "God shall eat," so your eating process will not be stopped, but that simply by thinking that "God shall eat," you shall dovetail your desire with the Supreme. You will . . . God wants to eat from you, and you want to give Him eating. So your desire and God's desires is dovetailed. You become perfect.
Similarly, in every step we can change our present activities, dovetailing our present consciousness, dovetailing with the supreme consciousness, and the result will be . . . if you go on practicing like that, then what will be the result? Now, the result is:
- karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi
- phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ
- janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ
- padaṁ gacchanty anāmayam
- (BG 2.51)
If you practice in your life, while you are human being, you, if you utilize your life in that way, then at the end, when you give up this body, you go back to Godhead for eternal life, eternal bliss, eternal knowledge and live happily, without any material miseries. That is the result.
It is very difficult to dovetailing our consciousness with the supreme consciousness? Not at all. Not at all! No sane man will say that, "It is very difficult problem. Oh, it is not possible." You eat. "Yes. Eh?" So God wants to eat something. Why don't you offer it first to God, then you eat? "No. If God takes it away, then how shall I eat?" No, no, no. God will not take it. We are offering daily. After preparing our foodstuff daily to Kṛṣṇa, there is witness, Mr. Paul. We offer Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa does not take it. Whole thing, we eat. (chuckles) You see? He does not regard . . . He eats! But because His spiritual eating is such that even after His eating, the whole thing is there. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate (Īśo Invocation).