Bhagavad-gita As It Is (Ch 9) The Most Confidential Knowledge Text 26

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is (Ch 9) The Most Confidential

Knowledge

 

 

Text 26

 

patram puspam phalam toyam

 

yo me bhaktya prayacchati

 

tad aham bhakty-upahrtam

 

asnami prayatatmanah

 

patram-a leaf; puspam-a flower; phalam-a fruit; toyam-water; yah- whoever;

me-unto Me; bhaktya-with devotion: prayacchati-offers; tat- that; aham-I;

bhakti-upahrtam-offered in devotion; asnami-accept; prayata-atmanah-of one in

pure consciousness.

 

TRANSLATION

 

If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or

water, I will accept it.

 

PURPORT

 

Here Lord Krsna having established that He is the only enjoyer, the primeval

Lord, and the real object of all sacrificial offerings, reveals what types of

sacrifices He desires to be offered. If one wishes to engage in devotional

service to the Supreme in order to be purified and to reach the goal of life-the

transcendental loving service of God-then he should find out what the Lord

desires of him. One who loves Krsna will give Him whatever He wants, and he

avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish

and eggs should not be offered to Krsna If He desired such things as offerings,

He would have said so. Instead He clearly requests that a leaf, fruit, flowers

and water be given to Him, and He says of this offering, "I will accept it."

Therefore, we should understand that He will not accept meat, fish and eggs.

Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings

and are prescribed by Lord Krsna Himself. Whatever else we eat cannot be offered

to Him, since He will not accept it. Thus we cannot be acting on the level of

loving devotion if we offer such foods.

 

In the Third Chapter, verse thirteen, Sri Krsna explains that only the remains

of sacrifice are purified and fit for consumption by those who are seeking

advancement in life and release from the clutches of the material entanglement.

Those who do not make an offering of their food, He says in the same verse, are

said to be eating only sin. In other words, their every mouthful is simply

deepening their involvement in the complexities of material nature. But

preparing nice, simple vegetable dishes, offering them before the picture or

Deity of Lord Krsna and bowing down and praying

 

for Him to accept such a humble offering, enable one to advance steadily in

life, to purify the body, and to create fine brain tissues which will lead

 

to clear thinking. Above all, the offering should be made with an attitude of

love. Krsna has no need of food, since He already possesses everything that be,

yet He will accept the offering of one who desires to please him in that way.

The important element, in preparation, in serving and in offering, is to act

with love for Krsna.

 

The impersonalist philosophers, who wish to maintain that the Absolute Truth is

without senses, cannot comprehend this verse of Bhagavad-gita. To them, it is

either a metaphor or proof of the mundane character of Krsna, the speaker of the

Gita. But, in actuality, Krsna, the Supreme Godhead, has senses, and it is

stated that His senses are interchangeable; in other words, one sense can

perform the function of any other. This is what it means to say that Krsna is

absolute. Lacking senses, He could hardly be considered full in all opulences.

In the Seventh Chapter, Krsna has explained that He impregnates the living

entities into material nature. This is done by His looking upon material nature.

And so in this instance, Krsna's hearing the devotee’s words of love in offering

foodstuffs is wholly identical with His eating and actually tasting. This point

should be emphasized: because of His absolute position, His hearing is wholly

identical with His eating and tasting. Only the devotee, who accepts Krsna as He

describes Himself, without interpretation, can understand that the Supreme

Absolute Truth can eat food and enjoy it.

 

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