Category:God's Prasadam
Theme Analysis
The acceptance of prasadam is not merely a ritual of eating but a fundamental spiritual discipline described by Śrīla Prabhupāda as the key to controlling the senses. The tongue is identified as the most formidable and voracious of the senses; therefore, spiritual life begins with its regulation. By restricting the tongue to chanting the holy names and tasting only food offered to the Supreme Lord, one automatically conquers the other senses. This process transforms eating from a material necessity into a purifying act that immunizes the devotee against the contamination of the material world and opens the door to liberation and higher spiritual understanding.
- Control of Senses: The tongue is the leader of the senses, and by engaging it in tasting prasadam and chanting, one gains mastery over the entire mind and body.
- Immunity from Material Nature: Food prepared for one's own sense gratification is material and binding, whereas prasadam is spiritual and provides immunity from the three modes of material nature.
- Method of Realization: Understanding God is not achieved merely through intellectual speculation but through the tongue; tasting prasadam helps one realize Krsna.
- Evidence of Faith: Acceptance of prasadam without hesitation, regardless of external circumstances, is a symptom of advanced faith and eradication of material dullness.
- Universal Benefit: The distribution of prasadam is a vital aspect of the sankirtana movement, purifying both the giver and the receiver, and satisfying all living entities.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Controlling Senses by Accepting God's Prasādam.
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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Pages in category "God's Prasadam"
The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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- After attaining sayujya-mukti, the demons are sometimes promoted to the Vaikuntha world, where they receive the reward of the Lord's garland prasada
- All the servitors of the Deity must be strictly qualified as brahmanas and, specifically, must engage in the Vaisnava custom of offering as much prasadam as possible and distributing it to the devotees who visit the temple to see the Lord
- Another function of the tongue is to taste and accept the Lord's prasada. We have to begin our service to the Unlimited with the tongue and become perfect in chanting, and accepting the Lord's prasada
- As you take foodstuff from a infected area, you become infected with some disease, so this is Krsna infected, prasadam. You take it, and one day you'll be diseased with Krsna consciousness. And that is a fact
- At this time, Raghunatha dasa approached Sri Nityananda Prabhu and, according to His order, prepared a feast and distributed prasadam composed of chipped rice and curd
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- Bhattacarya was very glad to receive this prasada from the hands of Lord Caitanya Himself. Indeed, without taking his bath and without performing his daily duties or even washing his teeth, he began immediately to eat the prasada
- By the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, all the dullness in the mind of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was eradicated. After reciting the following two verses (CC Madhya 6.225 - 6.226), he ate the prasadam offered to him
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- Deity of Krsna should be seen. That is the benefit of the eyes. The ears should be engaged hearing about Krsna. The tongue should be engaged for eating Krsna's remnants of foodstuff, prasadam
- Don't take anything which is not Krsna prasadam and don't talk anything which is not Krsna. Then you become liberated. Your path of liberation is open
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- In our sankirtana movement, or Hare Krsna movement, we offer sumptuous prasada to the Deity and later distribute the same prasada to the brahmanas, the Vaisnavas and then to the people in general
- It sometimes happens that prasadam is mixed with a larger quantity of food and then distributed, but in this case we find that Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya kept the jagannatha-prasadam separate. He kept it aside particularly for the satisfaction of Caitanya
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- Persons who are not very highly elevated in pious activities cannot believe in the remnants of food (prasadam) of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nor in Govinda, the holy name of the Lord, nor in the Vaisnavas
- Prasadam, Food prepared specifically for offering to the Lord, the remnants of which are taken by the devotees
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- Taking for granted that some of my forefathers have become ghostly life and has not got the gross body, so by this pindodaka . . . pinda means offering prasadam of Visnu prasadam
- The material world is full of contaminations, and one who is immunized by accepting prasadam of the Lord (food offered to Visnu) is saved from the attack, whereas one who does not do so becomes subjected to contamination. BG 1972 purports
- The prasadam was made of very valuable ingredients. Therefore the servant wanted to feed Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu a portion of it
- The servants of Lord Jagannatha first garlanded Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and then offered Him Lord Jagannatha's prasadam. The prasadam was so nice that its aroma alone, to say nothing of its taste, would drive the mind mad
- This is the real understanding. Everything belongs to God - isavasyam idam sarvam - everything, and tena tyaktena bhunjitha, whatever He gives you as prasadam
- This process is very pleasant: we chant the Hare Krsna mantra, we dance rhythmically, and we eat nice prasada. While enjoying this life, we are preparing to enter into the kingdom of God in our next life. This is not a fabrication - it is all factual
- To accept the Lord's prasada means to control the entire set of senses
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- We observe the system followed in Jagannath Puri. First the foodstuff is offered to Lord Jagannath and then His Prasad is offered to the different demigods; then we may take such remainders as prasadam
- With the tongue begins spiritual life. If we restrict our tongue not to talk uselessly, simply talk of Krsna or chant Hare Krsna, read Krsna books, and when you are hungry, take krsna-prasadam, then it will be possible, you can control the tongue