eating at meat-eaters?

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Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dham, Nadia, WB, INDIA

Camp: ISKCON Sri Radha-Rasabihari-Mandir, Hare Krishna Land, Mumbai, India

 

My Dear Spiritual Son,

 

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thankyou for your letter cited below with my comments. I have noted the

contents carefully.

 

> Dear Gurudeva,

>

> Please accept my respectful obeisances.

> All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> What should be our standard if we are asked to come to a member's house,

> where the grandmother is quite religious and vegetarian and wants to feed

> the brahmanas, but we know that the other member's of the house are not

> vegetarians?

>

> your servant,

>

> Deva Gaura Hari Das

 

If the grandmother is a pure vegetarian, (although it would be better yet

if she was a Krishna devotee practicing devotional service) and has her own

cooking pots which are only use for vegetarian cooking and she does all the

cooking herself then it would qualify as pure vegetarian food. If it is

offerable to Lord Sri Krishna or at least of a similar standard and not

offered to any deva/devi then it would be better.

 

I think earlier we mentioned about the transfer of karma by accepting food

from persons. That is why usually it is better to accept cooked food from

initiated devotees. If one has to accept cooked food from non-initiated

devotees and pious indian vegetarians then it is better to accept grains

fried in ghee like puris, samossas, kichories, pakoras, halavah and milk

grains like sweet rice. Sabjis could be cooked as normally done. Salads

and uncooked fruits and vegetables are also okay. It is more appropriate

and safer to accept boiled grains like rice from initiated or practicing

vaisnavas.

 

Sometimes for preaching one takes some risks but there may be reactions to

one's health or ones consciousness.

 

I hope this helps.

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami