The Hand says "I do all the work"

Srila Prabhupada told a story that the hand was thinking:

“I’m always serving the stomach.

I do all the work.

I plant the seeds

and grow the plants

and harvest the grains…

and combine the ingredients

and cook…

and it goes to the stomach!

I don’t like this. I’m going to enjoy myself.”

So the hand put itself in the pot and tried to absorb the food directly.

But it didn’t work, because there is a science:

the food is meant to go to the stomach,

and then from the stomach

the nutrition and satisfaction

spread throughout the body.

— Giriraj Swami, Introduction to Life’s Final Exam