Why do we offer prasadam to God ?

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Dear Friends

 

After completion of my daily Puja, I offered Prasadam to my

most beloved God Sri Jagannath Swamy. A Doubt sparkled in my mind -

Why should we offer prasadam to God when everything is given by God?

 

I answered myself this way! When ever I offer some toffees to

my dearest daughter Sniggy she does n't gobble it at once! She offers

me few toffees to me and then eats the rest. This act of hers makes me

feel that I am in the seventh heaven. Perhaps God being our Father,

might feel the same way.

 

Then I posed the same question to my wife, Mrs. Rajya Sri, who

is a voracious reader and a journalist. Pat came the reply; it is a

sign of gratitude. You cannot leave the master of the house uncared

for! Besides this gesture, gives a feeling that God is living with us

and sharing every moment with us.

 

Again I posed the question to my colleague Mrs. Aruna Yasoda,

who is a stanch devotee. She said it is to inculcate a habit of

acknowledging that everything belongs to God. We should always say

Krishnaarpanamasthu !! Until it became a force of habit.

 

Secondly, She added if we attain the realized state and feel

that every thing is god's own by mind, deed and thought. There is no

need to offer prasadam, But It is difficult to attain this state of

mind. Only Siddha Purusha's can have this kind of mind set.

 

My colleague Sri Vishnu Prasad who is Krishna Bhakta and who

practices of Bhakti Marg narrated that one should develop prasada

manas tatvam. We have to surrender our mind which is filled with Raga

and Dvesha in the form of prasadadm to the supreme being. If .we

achieve this sarvsya saranagathi state. There is no difference

between Eesha and Jeeva.

 

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