PART 1 Reply to-- Krsna Talk: Is a pure devotee, the guru or an acharya, omniscient?

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So Sridhara Maharaja in his "Sri Guru and His Grace", Guru-Absolute and

Relative, page 15

says:

 

> On a fast day like ekadasi, he himself does not take any grains. He

conducts himself as a

>Vaishnava, but his disciples offer grains to the picture of their guru on

>the altar. The disciple offers the spiritual master grains even on a fast

>day.'

 

But His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada says the grains CAN NOT be be offered

to the guru on ekadasi.

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Devotee: On ekadasi, we can offer the Deity grains?

Prabhupada: Oh yes. But NOT guru. Ekadasi observed by jiva-tattva, not by

Visnu-tattva. We are fasting for clearing our material disease, but

Radha-Krsna, Caitanya Mahaprabhu... Caitanya Mahaprabhu also may NOT be

offered grains because He is playing the part of a devotee. Only

Radha-Krsna, Jagannatha can be offered grains. Otherwise, Guru-Gauranga, no.

And the prasadam should not be taken by anyone. It should be kept for next

day.

 

Caitanya Caritamrta

Translation by HIS DIVINE GRACE A C BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA

Adi 15.9 The Lord' s Pauganda-lila

His mother replied, "My dear son, I will give You whatever You ask." Then

the Lord said, "My dear mother, please do not eat grains on the Ekadasi

day."

 

PURPORT

From the very beginning of His childhood life Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

introduced the system of observing a fast on the Ekadasi day. In the

Bhakti-sandarbha, by Srila Jiva Gosvami, there is a quotation from the

Skanda Purana admonishing that a person who eats grains on Ekadasi becomes a

murderer of his mother, father, brother and spiritual master, and even if he

is elevated to a Vaikuntha planet, he falls down. On Ekadasi, everything is

cooked for Visnu, including regular grains and dahl, but it is enjoined that

a Vaisnava should not even take visnu-prasada on Ekadasi. It is said that a

Vaisnava does not accept anything eatable that is not offered to Lord Visnu,

but on Ekadasi a Vaisnava should not touch even maha-prasada offered to

Visnu, although such prasada may be kept for being eaten the next day. It is

strictly forbidden for one to accept any kind of grain on Ekadasi, even if

it is offered to Lord Visnu.

 

 

Well---- we take discipline from Srila Prabhupada.

All Glories to our beloved Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada!

 

ys mahesh