View source for Has there been a fasting or other preparatory (all these boys present, they were, one year before, they were initiated for chanting, and now they are being second time initiated by mantra-diksa)?

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<div class="heading">No. According to Vaiṣṇava tantra, we do not require to fast because we are taking Kṛṣṇa's prasādam.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Gayatri Mantra Initiation -- Boston, May 9, 1968|Gayatri Mantra Initiation -- Boston, May 9, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Student: Has there been a fasting or other preparatory...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. According to Vaiṣṇava tantra, we do not require to fast because we are taking Kṛṣṇa's prasādam. Hare... Just like in Jagannātha Purī, there is no fasting, so long one is accepting Kṛṣṇa's prasādam. The fasting means purificatory, one, one who is taking all nonsense things, at least one day fasting to become purified. But one who is eating simply Kṛṣṇa prasādam and simple foodstuff, vegetable, grains, milk; they are not allowed to eat anything and everything. They are not allowed to take anything in the hotel. So practically, they are fasting. According to the general regulation, they are fasting every day. They are simply accepting Kṛṣṇa prasādam. That is already accepted. And because this ceremony is Vaiṣṇava smṛti, so we do not require particularly to fast.</p>
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