Vow to take only prasada

[Guest guest]

The difference of cooking here in this temple and in an ordinary

house is that in an ordinary house they’re cooking sins. The cooking appears

the same, but here there is no sin, because it is being cooked for Krsna.

Beyond this field of activities, Krsna consciousness, everything is within

the laws of nature, generally, you are being implicated in sinful

activities. And those who are little more cautious, they avoid sinful

activities, they do pious activities. But even in pious activities, one is

implicated.

 

So we should be careful not to eat anything which is not offered to

Krsna. That should be our determination. We cannot purchase things from the

market and eat. No. That is not possible. We cannot eat. We can simply eat

such things which are offered to the Deity, Krsna. Even if we have committed

some sin, by eating this prasadam we counteract it. How is this? That is

also stated in the Bhagavad-gita. [bg. 18.66] “If you surrender unto Me,

then I’ll give you protection from all sinful reactions.”

 

So if you make it a vow that “I shall not eat anything which is not

offered to Krsna,” that means surrender. You surrender to Krsna, that “My

dear Lord, I shall not eat anything which is not offered to You.” That vow

is surrender. And because there is surrender, you are protected from sinful

reaction.

 

(Class by Srila Prabhupada in LA, May 4, 1970)