In many places in his books Srila Prabhupada describes the wonders of prasadam, food prepared with devotion and offered to Krishna. Prabhupada discusses such merits of prasadam as how it effectively immunizes one against the contamination of the material nature, how it frees one from becoming a ghost after death, and even how it is considered ecstatic nectar from the lips of Lord Krishna. In the Chaitanya-charitamrita (Madhya-lila, 4.93, purport) Srila Prabhupada writes:
The Krishna consciousness movement vigorously approves this practice of preparing food, offering it to the Deity, and distributing it to the general population. This activity should be extended universally to stop sinful eating habits as well as other behavior befitting only demons. A demoniac civilization will never bring peace to the world… . When the people take to eating only prasadam offered to the Deity, all the demons will be turned into Vaishnavas… . It is then and then only that a peaceful condition can prevail in society.
Because prasadam is sanctified food and should be eaten with respect, we speak of eating prasadam as “honoring” or “respecting” it. Srila Prabhupada relished respecting the Lord’s prasadam and enjoyed seeing others do so. In early ISKCON days he cooked and distributed the Sunday “love feast.” And he kept a jar of syrupy gulabjamuns on hand for any of his spiritual children who might feel peckish. The sweets became known as “ISKCON bullets”—tasty weapons against maya. Prabhupada once popped a gulabjamun into his mouth and exclaimed, “We are eating our way back to Godhead!” Even in 1977 in Vrindavana, after months of fasting because of what would prove a fatal illness, Prabhupada called for his senior leaders, and in a faint, concerned voice he inquired, “Are the devotees getting enough prasadam?”
Once, after a festival in Mayapur, West Bengal, Prabhupada looked out from his veranda and saw some women and children licking used banana-leaf plates thrown on the rubbish heap. With compassionate intensity he said that no one within ten miles of an ISKCON temple should ever go hungry.
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