Prasadam (3)

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Brahma-vaivarta Purana 4.75.54

(Narayana speaks to Narada)

 

visnor ucchista-bhoji yo

matsyam mamsam na khadati

pade pade asvamedhasya

labhate niscitam phalam

 

"One who eats the remnants of food offered to Lord Visnu and who

does not eat fish or meat, is positively assured to receive the results of

the asvamedha yajna at every moment of his existence."

 

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Brahma-vaivarta Purana 4.83.7,29,30

(Krsna speaks to Nanda Maharaja)

 

7

 

nityam bhunkte mat-prasadam

anivedya kadacana

annam vistha jalam mutram

yad visnor aniveditam

 

"For him who always eats the remnants of food offered to Me, if he

should at any time eat unoffered food, those grains will be like stool and

water will taste like urine."

 

29

 

visnu-prasada-bhoji ca

pavitram kurute mahim

tirthani ca narams caiva

jivan-mukto hi sa dvijah

 

30

 

sarva-tirthesu sah snato

vratanam ca phalam labhet

pade pade asvamedhasya

labhate niscitam phalam

 

"One who eats Visnu-prasadam purifies the whole earth, the holy

places and the people. Such a brahmana is liberated in the self-same body.

He is considered to have taken bath and to have observed sacred vows in all

places of pilgrimage. He is positively assured to receive the results of the

asvamedha yajna at every moment of his existence."

 

 

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Prasadam Effect

 

 

Babhru das:

 

"In Honolulu in early 1974, Srila Prabhupada said it was not

necessarily the case that any creature eating prasadam would automatically

get a human birth. He explained that the benefit derived from eating

prasadam depends on the appreciation for the prasadam. If someone

appreciates that he got something to put in his belly, he gets some benefit;

if he likes it because it tastes good, he gets even more benefit; if he

appreciates that it is the Lord's remnants, he gets the most benefit. As far

as I know, these questions after classes were not taped."