How to link your life situation to Krishna Consciousness

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: Walking through Golden Gate Park one day, they heard a scratching noise coming from a garbage bin. Prabhupada went over, looked in, and pulled back in repulsion. A big-city rat was trapped in the garbage bin and was trying to get out by scratching. Prabhupada shook his head and said, "He is doomed." He then continued his walk. Prabhupada commented later that the garbage collector would come, see the rat and kill him. Prabhupada was always after the philosophical and Krishna conscious meaning. Even a seemingly ordinary comment about the rat's doom struck his disciples as deep and philosophical.

They could understand that their position was similar, that they were trapped in the material world waiting for the end, and that Prabhupada was saving them. On his return from India, after taking part in the first evening kirtana in the San Francisco temple, Prabhupada said, "You have all advanced." He saw that the devotees had become more enthusiastic and ecstatic, as guests were also rising and dancing.