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Preparing, offering, sharing and eating prasadam is a fundamental bhakti yoga practice. Some forms of yoga ask us to artificially repress the senses, but the bhakti-yogi can engage his or her senses in a variety of pleasing spiritual activities, such as tasting delicious food offered to Lord Krsna.

Working in this way our senses gradually become spiritualized, and bring us more and more transcendental pleasure, by being engaged in devotional service. Such spiritual pleasure far surpasses any kind of material experience.

Eating only food offered to Lord Krsna is the perfection of vegetarianism. Being a vegetarian, in itself, is not enough. After all even pigeons and monkeys are vegetarians. When we go beyond vegetarianism to a diet of prasadam, our eating helps in our achieving the goal of human life, to re-awaken the soul's original relationship with God.

In the Bhagavad gita Krishna says that unless one eats only food that has been offered to Him in sacrifice, one will suffer the reactions of karma.

The items we offer to Lord Krishna become 'Prasadam,' the Lord's mercy. When we offer food preperations to Krishna we are able to absorb His mercy directly, by eating and sharing the 'Prasadam.'

Preparing, offering and sharing 'Prasadam' is a wonderfully easy way to obtain and spread the mercry of Lord Krishna.

Here are some of the glories of prasadam for you to comsider and meditate on.

* Prasadam is spiritual, it is not different from Krishna

* It purifies the heart

* It frees one from sinful reactions

* We can simply eat our way back to Godhead

* Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Krishna become very pleased when we lovingly prepare and offer food for Them

* Krishna actually eats the offering

* By eating prasadam, the devotee becomes Krishna-ised

* It connects the whole process of obtaining, preparing and eating our food with Lord Krishna Himself

* It helps control the tongue

* It helps protects one from falling into illusion

* We are able to practice offering our love and devotion to the Lord

* We gain spiritual benefit through offering, serving and eating prasadam

* We are not dry renouncers so we can prepare wonderful feasts

* Krishna likes to see His devotees enjoy in a Krishna conscious way

Hare Krishna

Bhakta Antony Brennan

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