Yamuna's cookbook is a wonderful experience, an intimate glimpse into Prabhupada's personality. Vrindavan's natural devotional environment adds a favorable wind to the cooking service, as all desirable exotic ingredients are readily available. We also brought flower and vegetable seeds from the US and planted them here for Giriraja. Now we need some land to transplant them into, as they are begining to flower and bear fruit. Otherwise, fresh vegetables and spices are available in the market every day, and fresh milk from the neighborhood goshala adds considerably to the experience.
Milk is indeed a miracle.
Gathering and working with this divine substance is enough to convince one of the existence of God. Knowing that he himself loves it in all of its various stages of transformation and preparation transforms 'laukika sraddha' to 'aluakika sraddha', form general faith in God, one develops faith in Krsna, Govinda the cowherder, and his aprakrita lila. Here there are cows everywhere, white, black, red, yellow, spotted, etc. When people say 'Jan seva, Hari seva,' 'Serving people is serving God' we object, because people themselves are supposed to worship God. Furthermore, those who say this imply that serving humanity is the sum and substance of service to Godhead.