Bhagavad Gita 3.13

[Paramananda das]

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Click Here for Your Bhagavad Gita Starter  Kit! Chapter 3. Karma-yoga TEXT 13 yajna-sistasinah santo mucyante  sarva-kilbisaih bhunjate te tv agham papa ye pacanty  atma-karanat SYNONYMS yajna-sista--food taken  after performance of yajna; asinah--eaters; santah--the  devotees; mucyante--get relief from; sarva--all kinds of; kilbisaih--from sins; bhunjate--enjoy; te--they; tu--but; agham--grievous sins; papah--sinners; ye--those; pacanti--prepare food; atma-karanat--for sense  enjoyment. TRANSLATION The devotees of the Lord are  released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for  sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat  only sin. PURPORT The devotees of the Supreme Lord, or the  persons who are in Krsna consciousness, are called santas, and they are  always in love with the Lord as it is described in the Brahma-samhita: premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah  sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. The santas, being always in a compact  of love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda (the giver of all  pleasures), or Mukunda (the giver of liberation), or Krsna (the all-attractive  person), cannot accept anything without first offering it to the Supreme Person.  Therefore, such devotees always perform yajnas in different modes of  devotional service, such as sravanam, kirtanam, smaranam, arcanam, etc.,  and these performances of yajnas keep them always aloof from all kinds of  contamination of sinful association in the material world. Others, who prepare  food for self or sense gratification, are not only thieves, but are also the  eaters of all kinds of sins. How can a person be happy if he is both a thief and  sinful? It is not possible. Therefore, in order for people to become happy in  all respects, they must be taught to perform the easy process of sankirtana-yajna, in full Krsna consciousness. Otherwise, there can be no  peace or happiness in the world. GET YOUR  OWN PERSONAL COPY OF THE BOOK

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Copyright (c) 1972 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami  Prabhupada http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/bhagavad-gita-3-13/ commentaries of Srila Visvanath Chakravati Thakura http://bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-03-13.html commentaries of the vaisnava acaryas comments: It is very important we offer everything to Krsna. The acaryas especially Srila Sridhara Swami and Srila Ramanujacarya has pointed out that we must offer everything we eat to Krsna or their will be reactiones that daily built up and stops us from going back to Godhead. Once on traveling sankirtana one devotee kept forgetting to offer the bhoga that was being cooked.Harikesa  das the then GBC pointed out that since the devotee was thinking of Krsna while maybe not having offered it was still prasadam .But we must be very carefull to offer everything we eat to Krsna.Sometimes a devotee is rushing due to some service and maybe forget, but we should be very carefull to offering everything to Krsna. Krsna also says elsewhere in Bhagavad Gita Yad Karosi yad  asnasi http://www.asitis.com/9/27.html The essence of KC is to always remember Krsna and never forget Him. I have composed a nice article about Nama seva and prasadam seva_ http://nimaipandit.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bhagavad-gita-chapter-15... We must keep in mind Lord Caitanya said that He only accepts offering of prasadam from the hands of the vaisnava that daily chants 64 rounds.So how serious are we that the Supreme Lord will accept the offerings we are making through our spiritual masters and Lord Caitanya?